The Modern Museum Has Lost its Muse
People are bored.
They suffer from “Moise” - a museum malaise where you feel gallery fatigue.
Why?
Objects are kept behind glass
Spaces are designed for silence, distance, and decorum
Cultural objects are removed from their original context and mediated by “experts”
We’re encouraged to observe but not to feel
Beauty becomes something we look at, not something that transforms us
We keep most of our thoughts and feelings to ourselves
Phenomenal Museum Returns the Museum to its Original Function
How?
By opening your senses
Awakening attention and inner listening
Transforming art objects into guides
Making creativity feel alive again
Restoring relationships between people, land, art, and story
Connecting us to others around us
Instead of looking at art from a distance, we enter into relationship with it.
Instead of looking at art in isolation, we connect to it through each other.
Instead of being spectators, we become channels.
About the Artist
Jessica Kung (Gong Jie Xi) is the artist through which the Phenomenal Museum moves.
Jie Xi is an international cross-disciplinary artist, architectural ornament designer, teacher, and writer. Her art practice maps consciousness through large scale ink drawings, ritual activations of museums, spiritual reckonings with architectural ornament, and journeys through ancient language. She is the founder of Make Conscious, co-chair of Yale Women in Architecture, and co-founder of Longhaus. She holds multiple degrees, including a BA cum laude from Yale in Architecture and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Jie Xi sees architectural ornament and spatial design as an energetic system rather than mere decoration. She revives the cosmos through ornament, reintegrating geometry, spatial harmonics, and geomantic intelligence into design. Every piece she creates, whether a performance piece, a tea set, or an architectural ornament, is not just an object: It is a portal into a deeper way of seeing and being.
Her work deconstructs spiritual materialism and extractive aesthetics, creating a sanctuary of meaning, depth, and purity. She doesn’t fear engagement with the world, moving through it with unapologetic clarity, forging an ancestral creative language that transcends conventional art, literature, and design.