Adelle Yingxi Lin

A site-specific installation of four connected water portraits created through calligraphy collaborations with rain, waterfall, creek, and pond. Each water body participated in mark-making—rain through unpredictable rhythm, waterfall through forceful flow, creek through gentle current, and pond through reflective stillness—co-authoring hybrid scripts that merge Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew characters.

The resulting portraits are connected and suspended from an agricultural silo, creating a flowing installation that echoes water's movement through the landscape. The artist investigates how identity can be shaped by forces of nature, with the calligraphy dissolving and transforming through water interaction to create visual metaphors for how cultural identity flows and adapts through environmental encounter. The work creates portraits not of water's appearance, but of its character, movement, and collaborative potential, now given architectural scale through the rural site.

Rain

A water portrait created through calligraphy collaboration with rain, wrapped around an outdoor metal structure. The artist worked in the rain, with the water droplets participating in mark-making, creating its own portrait as it interacted with hybrid scripts merging Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew characters. The vertical orientation and cylindrical installation emphasize the downward movement of rain while the calligraphy dissolves and transforms through direct environmental encounter. The work investigates how cultural identity adapts through natural forces, with the metal structure providing an industrial counterpoint to the organic collaboration between artist, rain, and script.

Creek

Gentle running water massages

Pond

Still life creates a marbling