Wendi YAN (born in 1999, Beijing) is an artist, technologist, and writer narrating metamorphoses of the scientific self. She examines the cosmological, linguistic, and physiological challenges in facing alien epistemic systems across time and crafts alternative fictions of science and its history through CGI films, games, and archival displays of sculptural objects. “Dream of Walnut Palaces” is a CGI film reimagining knowledge exchange between China and Europe in the 18th century. Exploring the psyche of a fictional Daoist in a Paris lab, it examines the East-West clash of epistemic visuality and envisions an alternative to techno-Orientalism: a harmonious union of knowledge integrating Daoist metaphysics. Using Unreal Engine, 3D modeling, and AI, Yan transmutes historical images and lost ideas, giving voice to ‘ghosts’ and ‘orphans’ of the Enlightenment.