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