I’m S.Z., a film photographer and Fengshui 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 grew up in China, where Feng Shui was never something mystical. It was just the unspoken rules we lived by, passed down from one generation to the next. It wasn't until I moved to the U.S. that I understood how deeply that sense of space had shaped me. So I went back to it with intention. I spent more than ten years practicing the classical system formally and learning the real principles behind the folklore.

Today, I help people read their home/work spaces. My work is to take something ancient and authentic and make it genuinely useful in your life, so that your space starts working with you.

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 well-being 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.