Son to Sun：The Forever Elephant, 2025

1.Experimental Animation ｜Color｜8minutes ｜Projector 2.Digital Puppetry Video Game ｜Color｜Computer 3. Puppet sound installation ｜Egg box，Speaker Son to Sun: The Forever Elephant (象像）is the artistic research project composed of two works: an 8-minute experimental animation and an embodied, interactive digital puppetry video game，hybridizing AI-generated visuals with 3D-scanned antique toys of doll and elephants. Together, they perform a funeral rite not only for an elephant, but also for the ontology of the image itself. In an era of digital oversaturation, material dissolution, and symbolic disorientation, the project stages a reincarnation ritual for the image, exploring how it might live, die, and be reborn in a post- representational world. Set within a liminal space, the elephant is animated not as representation, but as a playful, unstable presence something between 象(imagery) and 像 (image), ancient bone and digital skin, memory and prototype. Drawing from new materialism and media materiality, the project proposes a shifting methodology of image-becoming: recursive, embodied, and speculative. This project asks: what does it mean for an image to live, die, or be reborn?