Controlled Permeability

Controlled Permeability is a generative moving-image work built around photorealism without physical realism. Surfaces, objects, and volumes retain coherent light, scale, and geometry while selectively exchanging properties across biological, mineral, synthetic, and designed matter. A polished shell may become soft or porous; a membrane may acquire mineral density; a pore may open into an architectural chamber; an object may become an environment and then return to object scale.

Material, spatial, and scalar permeability organise the work. The camera glides, orbits, penetrates, withdraws, and changes scale, while the forms themselves also transform during observation. Some changes remain within the same material register and unfold gradually; others occur abruptly or cross into another material category. The uncanny quality arises from the physical impossibility of these actions rather than from horror or grotesquerie. Dynamic passages alternate with longer resolved tableaux so that propulsion and contemplation coexist.

For Urban Digital Canvas Shanghai, the architectural display becomes part of this logic: microscopic-looking detail can become façade, a fold can become passage, and an object can occupy architectural scale.