JIAN’S
UNIVERSE
A big story that began
with a little curiosity
In words, in pictures, in sound and movement.
Welcome to the little universe where Jian’s thoughts sparkle.
The things I love
gather into a universe called me.
A short poem, a single drawing, endless questions.
A collection of the world as Jian sees it.
It celebrates loving something more than being good at it,
and growing more than finishing.
Scroll to gather the scattered letters · tap a letter
Sparkling pieces of thought✳
Meet the story inside each work.
Jian’s planet
pulls in all kinds of knowledge.
Same ball, different time
1 second for Ttor, 2 for Makkeori
Jian drew this thought experiment on her whiteboard. Ttor the frog rides a moving cart and Makkeori stands on the ground, both watching a ball bounce up and down inside a tube. It is the same ball, so why do they see it differently?
From the ground, Makkeori sees the ball also move sideways with the cart, so it follows the slanted yellow dotted path. The path is twice as long, and if the ball (like light) moves at the same speed, Makkeori’s clock reads 2 seconds. Time runs slower for the moving one — Einstein’s idea of time dilation.
As the cart rolls, a point on its wheel traces the pink curve. That curve is a cycloid.
See Jian’s original whiteboard Follow a brain-cell friend
through the rooms of the brain.
Jian drew the brain as a house full of rooms. Tap a room and the brain cell she drew runs over to it.
Brain cells gather here holding colorful pieces of memory. Today’s moments are stored here too.
Tap a room · tap the spinal cord to send news up to the brain
〈 Teacher Jian’s Math 〉
“What is a fraction?”
Teacher Jian’s first lesson.
At the whiteboard, Jian becomes the teacher and explains fractions and divisors. Split the circle into equal parts and color them to join her lesson.
- What is a fraction?
- Adding & subtracting fractions
- Integers, decimals, natural numbers
- Divisors & prime factorization
- Number and sum of divisors
- Multiples
- Divisibility rules
Tap the pieces to color them · simplify a fraction to reach the next lesson, divisors
0 of 8 pieces colored
Curiosity comes
in many shapes.
When different worlds meet,
imagination grows wider.
When feelings turn into words
Little thoughts picked up from everyday life, woven letter by letter into stories.
Handing the world a question
Why? What if? One question leads to the next discovery.
Imagination in color and line
Beyond what the eye can see, freely painting the landscapes in her heart.
Speaking in sound and movement
Little notes and the curve of a pointed toe tell what words can’t.
Paint the paper
and Jian’s drawing appears.
Brush across hereSo that today’s little star
becomes tomorrow’s universe.
Walk along the works and meet the moments of growing up.
Years come from the materials. File or copyright dates may differ from when a work was made.
What words can’t say,
Jian turns into songs.
Tap the notes · turn the sound on to hear the melody
Before going on stage,
Jian writes her steps in a notebook.
Hand and foot positions, the order of the steps, the final bow. The ballerina dances in the order Jian wrote in her own notes.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
Start in fourth-position arms and feet.
Change the order in the notes, then press ‘Dance the notes’
Moments told in sound and movement
Select a video to open it on YouTube.
“Where will one little curiosity
take Jian?”