Yuxi Dai 戴裕僖

Photographs · Drawings · Studies

Things I notice.

Photographs from places I’ve been, alongside drawings and material studies. Details, landscapes, and moments I wanted to keep.

Photography

Places, details, and passing moments

Market stalls and a crowd beneath a large stone arch, with a brick building beyond.
Under the arch
Yellow taxis on a busy street lined with tall buildings and illuminated billboards.
Taxis & billboards
A slender pale tower framed by neighboring glass buildings, seen from below.
Looking up
A cutaway wall exposing timber supports beneath worn plaster and decorative molding.
Wall layers
Close-up of a worn floral pattern in muted brown, gray, and cream.
Faded florals
Strings of dark beads suspended in front of a colorful, patterned backdrop.
Beads & patterns
A wide pendant lamp hangs before a gridded window overlooking trees and a peach-colored building.
Through the window
Three children stand beside the sea, one holding a fishing rod, beneath an overcast sky.
By the sea
White observatory domes on a dark mountain ridge beneath a wide blue sky.
Observatory domes
Raindrops blur dark clouds, a glowing horizon, and red lights beyond a window.
Rain at dusk
Waves break along a dark rocky shoreline beneath heavy gray clouds.
Rocky shore
Dry grass and scattered rocks overlook coastal cliffs and the sea beneath low clouds.
Coastal grassland
A narrow road runs past grazing cattle and utility poles under a gray sky.
Open road
Silhouetted sailboats beyond a breakwater, with a low sun reflected across the water.
Sailboats
Palm trees silhouetted against an orange horizon over the sea.
Palms
The underside of a red scalloped canopy with blue-rimmed openings against a clear sky.
Red canopy
A person wearing a cap stands beside a row of brass-colored prayer wheels beneath a yellow canopy.
Prayer wheels
A hooded figure rests a hand on the base of a prayer wheel in a long golden row.
A passing touch
Diagonal strings of multicolored flags cross a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Flags overhead
A snow-covered mountain rises beyond dry foothills and an open plain.
Distant peak
A closer view of a snow-covered mountain, with dark rock bands cutting across its slopes.
Snow & stone
Rough stone steps rise toward a clear blue sky, viewed from below.
Stone steps
A circular panorama with pale blue sky at its center and a glowing orange horizon around its edge.
Circular sky
A circular panorama of waterfront lights and their reflections around a blue center.
Circular waterfront
An empty wooden bench sits against a stone base beneath a large red wall.
Red wall

Drawings & studies

Sketches, spatial studies, embroidery

A spread of hand-drawn plans, domes, facades, and architectural details with handwritten notes.
Sketchbook
A fine-line axonometric drawing of an abstract arrangement of rectangular spaces and planes.
Cube City
An embroidery hoop containing stitched houses, a flowering branch, and dark reflections below.
Embroidery

Sometimes an observation becomes an object.

From window to wrist ↗