Pigeon’s Confession
Cassette Tape Design, 2026
Illustrated
for the background track composed for the installation artwork “Pigeon’s Confession,” a part of the GAME.Play Exhibition by UAL Collaborative Residency 2025-2026, by Xindi Hu, Sam Hwang, Yusuke Kuriki, Ziyan Liu, and Tricia Wong.
“Pigeon’s Confession” examines language as an embodied archive of trauma and environment. Rather than grasping semantics, a child acquires speech through maternal gestures and conditioned reflexes. These repetitive loops reveal a history of loss and care, suggesting that trauma is inherited through atmospheric imprints—where memory is performed, rather than remembered.