I’m S.Z., a film photographer and geomancy practitioner.

My work spans multiple creative and cultural practices, including analog image-making, visual art, and traditional Chinese spatial studies. With over 10 years of experience in Feng Shui and geomancy, he approaches these subjects through a contemporary, and cross-cultural lens.

I was trained as a STEM PhD, but my relationship with Feng Shui began long before this.

I have always been drawn to things that felt mysterious and difficult to explain since I my childhood: that certain places, objects, or moments carry something beyond their visible form.

I studied and practiced Feng Shui as a way of deciphering the relationship spacetime and human experience. Over the years, I explored different systems, including the Four Guardians, Jin Suo Yu Guan, Xuan Kong, and birth-chart Feng Shui. I was deeply intrigued by practitioners that walk around the a house and start to connect the dots with to the residences inside: their wealth, health, family dynamics, etc. This mysterious phenomenons come to complete sense when treating the space and its residents as a whole. In Feng Shui, a space is not separate from the people who live in it. The same patterns of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, direction, form, and timing that shape the environment also appear in the body, emotions, and life experience. Walking around a space, then, is not simply looking at architecture; it is reading how the language of space is translated in human experience. Moreover, it often give clues on areas of life that might need care and healing.

My STEM PhD training further strengthened the way I approach Feng Shui not as superstition, but as a layered system of observation, correspondence, pattern, and interpretation. My years in PhD also made me aware of how STEM knowledge is often directed toward productivity, optimization, institutional growth, and capital. That realization changed me to move toward a practice that feels more human, relational, and restorative.

Even after years of reading spaces, Feng Shui still surprises me. A certain direction, a piece of furniture, a cabinet placed in a particular area, or an unusual sound in a home can sometimes correspond to patterns that Feng Shui is able to recognize. These moments remind me the uncanniness of Feng Shui . It is a field that requires humility under the unknown.

Unlike conventional practices, I identified Feng Shui as a form of healing through space.

Unlike conventional approaches that treat Feng Shui mainly as bringing luck or fortune, I see it as a form of healing through space. A space can carry stress, grief, stagnation, conflict, etc. It can reveal where energy is blocked, where the body cannot fully rest, or where certain patterns keep repeating.

I observe what a place holds, where it creates tension, and how it may be gently adjusted to support grounding, release, protection, and renewal. Sometimes this healing comes through changing the movement of a room; sometimes through furniture placement, light, material, color, plants, stones, crystals, ritual objects, or symbolic anchors. A small shift in the right place sometimes can change how a space receives, contains, or releases energy.

Feng Shui is not just about making a home look balanced. It is about helping a space become more supportive, protective, breathable, and alive for the people within it.