Where Nature, Textile, Puppetry and Technology Become Kin

"In the breath between weave and wire, a story stirs, a spark, a fire.
Hands entwine with threads and code.
Nature talks. Puppets rise. Shadows unfold." (S.Recoules Quang 2025)

I make textile creatures and the responsive stages they live on, characters built from thermochromic and hydrochromic materials that communicate with their environment through colour, heat and water rather than holding one fixed form. My practice blends hand-craft with code, threads, wire and circuitry worked together, so that nature, puppetry and technology aren't three separate things but one material practice. It's rooted in a question I keep returning to: what does kinship look like when it's built through contact rather than inherited, and what happens when materials get to tell their own story. 

Research

This section documents grant and research focused on material exploration, and interdisciplinary development in puppetry, textiles, and ecological performance.

Portfolio

These works reflect an ongoing dialogue between craft, technology, and ecological awareness, where materials don’t just support stories, but become storytellers.

They are performances, puppets, and responsive installations shaped through material-led practices across analogue and digital environments. 

From shadows and seaweed to code and conductivity, the portfolio spans puppetry, textiles, and interactive systems. each exploring how making can become a collaborative act with both nature and machine.