From the Palm to the City: Tangle Brings Art to Everyday Life in Shenzhen
A Tangle can fit in the palm of your hand. Twist it once, and it changes. Twist it again, and a new shape appears.
There is no single right way to use it, no final form to reach, and no prescribed path to follow. Every movement opens another possibility. Every person brings a different rhythm, touch, and imagination to the experience.
That sense of movement is at the heart of “Infinite Living Through Creativity,” a new exhibition bringing the work of American sculptor and inventor Richard X. Zawitz into the everyday spaces of Qianhai Kerry Centre in Shenzhen, China.
From August through November 2026, visitors can experience Zawitz’s exploration of infinite form through sculptures placed throughout the center’s open, shared environment. It is an invitation to look again at the spaces around us: and to discover that art does not always belong behind glass or at a distance.
Sometimes, it belongs right in your hand.
Live from the palm
For many people, Tangle is already a familiar companion. It may be something to twist during a quiet moment, reshape while thinking, or keep nearby when your hands need something to do.
But Tangle’s story began long before it became a colorful, tactile object found in homes, classrooms, studios, and workplaces around the world.
Its origins are rooted in nearly half a century of artistic exploration by Richard X. Zawitz. His work began with sculpture and grew into an ongoing study of form, movement, energy, and connection. Tangle emerged from that same creative universe: not simply as a toy, but as a small, movable sculpture designed to be touched, held, and reimagined.
Zawitz’s goal has always been to make the creative process more accessible. As he writes on his artist profile, Tangle was created so that “anyone and everyone could experience the creative process.”
That idea is simple, but it reaches far.
A monumental sculpture can transform the way we experience a public space. A Tangle can transform a moment of waiting, thinking, playing, or resting. The scale changes, but the invitation remains the same: engage with the form and see what happens.
A language of curves
Zawitz’s work is inspired by the flowing geometry found throughout nature and the universe.
Waves move in curves. Vines grow through spirals. Galaxies gather in sweeping forms. Even the smallest natural structures are full of motion, connection, and change. Perfect right angles may help us organize the world, but nature often speaks in a different visual language: one of loops, arcs, pathways, and continuous movement.
For Zawitz, curves became a way to explore energy and transformation.
A Tangle carries that language into an everyday object. Its linked segments can bend, fold, wrap, and flow. It can become a loop, a wave, a chain, or something that does not have a name yet. The object stays familiar while the experience keeps changing.
That is what makes Tangle feel like a sculpture you can touch. You are not only looking at the form: you are participating in it.
Your hands become part of the process. Your movement becomes part of the artwork. For a few moments, creativity becomes something physical and immediate: a small orbit moving from one shape to the next.
From sculpture to city
“Infinite Living Through Creativity” expands this idea from the palm of the hand into the urban environment of Shenzhen.
Presented jointly by Qianhai Kerry Centre and Richard X. Zawitz, the exhibition places his sculptural practice within the daily flow of a mixed-use city center. Visitors may encounter the works as they move through lobbies, gather with friends, work, shop, or simply take a pause in the surrounding green spaces.
This setting is an important part of the exhibition’s story.
According to the project description from KPF, Qianhai Kerry Centre is designed as a connected neighborhood with retail, office, residential, hospitality, cultural, and educational spaces. Its public areas include green lawns, civic plazas, terraced gardens, and pedestrian-friendly streets.
It is a place built for movement and connection. People arrive from different directions, follow different routes, and experience the environment in their own ways.
That makes it a natural home for Zawitz’s work.
The sculptures placed throughout Qianhai Kerry Centre and the Tangle held in someone’s hand are telling a similar story. Both are open forms. Both invite curiosity. Both become more meaningful through interaction.
The city provides the larger landscape. The sculpture provides a point of focus. The Tangle brings that same creative energy into a personal, portable format.
We are part of the artwork
Art can sometimes feel distant: something to observe quietly, without touching or changing it.
Zawitz challenges that idea.
His work encourages a direct relationship between people and form. A sculpture may be experienced at architectural scale, while a Tangle offers a similar encounter in miniature. One may rise through a lobby or public space; the other may rest in your palm. Both invite you to notice shape, motion, balance, and possibility.
There is no audience sitting completely outside the experience. The viewer, the visitor, and the person holding the Tangle all become part of the creative exchange.
That is the heart of infinite creativity: not a finished answer, but an ongoing conversation.
You look. You touch. You move. The form responds.
Then you try again.
A good life, one moment at a time
The exhibition also connects with Qianhai Kerry Centre’s vision of “the good life”: a way of thinking about daily life that leaves room for curiosity, presence, and creativity.
In a fast-moving city, it can be easy to pass through spaces without really seeing them. We move from one task to the next, following schedules and signals. But a sculpture in an unexpected place can create a pause. A new shape can make us look up. A familiar Tangle can remind us to return to the moment.
This does not require a grand gesture.
Creativity can begin with a small movement: turning a segment, tracing a curve, or noticing how one form connects to another. It can happen while walking through a lobby, sitting in a garden, meeting someone new, or taking a quiet break between destinations.
The city is always changing. So is the artwork. So are we.
Bring your Tangle
If you are visiting Qianhai Kerry Centre during the exhibition, bring your own Tangle and explore the conversation between the small form in your hand and the larger sculptures around you.
You might notice a familiar curve in a new context. You might see how a shape that feels playful at palm-size becomes bold and architectural at city scale. Or you might simply enjoy the freedom of moving through the exhibition at your own pace.
There is no required route and no correct interpretation.
Just bring your curiosity.
Browse the Tangle collection, choose a favorite form, and let your hands lead the way.
From the palm to the city, Richard X. Zawitz’s work shows how creativity can travel. It can begin as an idea, become a sculpture, transform into a tactile object, and continue evolving through every person who encounters it.
A familiar curve can become a new possibility.
A sculpture can become part of a daily route.
And a simple twist can open a much bigger world.
Be present. Experience the everyday. Stay curious.
Exhibition details
Exhibition: Infinite Living Through Creativity
Presented by: Qianhai Kerry Centre and Richard X. Zawitz
Dates: August–November 2026
Location: Qianhai Kerry Centre, Shenzhen, China
Exhibition areas: T2 Lobby, T3 Lobby, T5 Lobby, Bayview Hall, and other locations throughout the center
Keep exploring
Learn more about Richard X. Zawitz and the story behind Tangle, or discover more tactile, twistable designs at Tangle Creations.
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