Commissioned by the Beijing Cultural and Art Development Council, this installation inhabits the interior voids of the Beijing National Stadium—widely known as the Bird’s Nest—designed for the 2008 Olympics by Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Ai Weiwei.

The project draws from two essential Chinese concepts: shan (mountain) and shui (water). Rather than representing them literally, the installation merges both elements into a single perceptual landscape experienced through movement.

Ten mountain-like geometries are constructed from paired perforated steel panels, positioned 25 cm apart. When viewed in motion, the overlapping grids generate moiré interference patterns—optical waves that evoke the fluid movement of water across a mountainous terrain. Powder-coated in white and mounted on concealed casters, each structure can be freely positioned within the stadium’s vast interior.

As visitors walk through the space, the mountains appear to ripple and dissolve. Water emerges from the mountain itself—an optical metaphor for the inseparable relationship between the two elements, echoing the balance of yin and yang.

Here, movement is not mechanical but perceptual. The landscape shifts only through the presence of the viewer, transforming static structures into a continuously changing environment.