Er Jing Tiao (Chinese chilli pepper) migrates and adapts to the humid climate of Sichuan. Over time, it became inseparable from the region’s landscape, agriculture, and everyday cuisine, shaped by local temperature, rainfall, and seasonal rhythms. Its distinctive balance of heat and aroma is the result of this long climatic relationship.

Today, rising temperatures and increasing humidity are altering these conditions, causing Er Jing Tiao to lose intensity and depth of flavour. To represent this phenomenon, chilli-infused vapour is released into a transparent acrylic box. The vapour circulates, settles, and condenses into droplets, forming a miniature atmosphere. The shifting vapour becomes both a response to climate and a metaphor for it — an unstable, fragile record of environmental change made visible through movement, air and moisture.