​In recent years, YiMiao's research has centred on ideas of belonging and home—how spaces are accessed, owned, or imagined, and how comfort is constructed within constraint. These questions have gradually shifted from narrative depiction toward material enquiry. Recent projects using metal and wood as framing devices revealed a critical threshold: structure is no longer a neutral support, but an active, conceptual presence.

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This series of flattened pieces (or silhouettes) of furniture are made to unpack what constitutes the concept of home, and one wonders why only when we start to put furniture in situ, that we transform a space to home. These smaller than life size, portable and collectable domestic items reimagine the physicality of a fractional ownership.