Our emotions change all the time, and words are tools for us to express them. Chinese characters form one of the world’s oldest continuously used writing systems. Jenwei Huang’s Hanzi Gong asks: what if these characters had feelings? What would they look like? The piece is inspired by the Kangxi Dictionary, which contains 47,035 traditional Chinese characters categorised by 214 radicals. Huang created a wireframe of 18,046 characters and 50 (1) radicals using push stack adjustment. The result is 51 series of artworks, in which Huang presents Chinese characters as emotional, ideographic forms. Here, radicals such as “xin” (heart) are used to express shifting human states.