Triadic Patterning is a worldbuilding project that evolved across a three-channel video, interactive website, and 3D printed sculpture. It explores the triadic relationship between Qianliyan (Thousand-Mile Eye), Shunfeng’er (Wind-Following Ear), and Mazu. Qianliyan and Shunfeng’er are guardian deities embodying the act of seeing and listening, appearing in myth as anthropomorphic tools. In my reframing, Qianliyan and Shunfeng’er cause havoc due to their separation and unexamined pain; sensing this chaos, Mazu binds them together in a contract of Daoist magic, completing a triadic patterning of embodied integration.

Scoring and character soundtracks by Taüs Jafar