It fuses the physical and virtual — a sculpture purifying a dense brew of 60+ herbal ingredients into the gallery air, while a Unity 3D virtual world mirrors visitors’ shapes, transforming their silhouettes into shifting constellations of particles and geometry.

This mechanical re-interpretation questions what it means for artificial agents to produce "meaning" beyond mere data.The installation is a hybrid Zen garden, robot combat arena, and cognitive map—a small universe inspired by Chinese scholar’s gardens and Eastern animism, imagining AI as autonomous beings wrestling with cosmic understanding.A sculptural tree element distills rainwater through layers of clay, Ganoderma powder, sea sponge, and minerals (Cinnabar, Realgar, Boswellia, Lead), referencing ancient medicaments and the blurred line between remedy and poison—the classic Pharmakon.

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