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rocky’s matcha | Debuting Its First-Ever Spatial Experience: Oscar Tuazon’s Circle House

An installation at Los Angeles gallery Morán Morán

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Circle House (2026) by Oscar Tuazon. All images courtesy of STADE New York.

In Zen Buddhism, ensō (a circle hand-drawn in a single stroke) represents our entire imperfect universe. It is everything and nothing all at once, and now, in an installation by Oscar Tuazon, it has been sculpturally realized as Circle House (2026), presented by rocky’s matcha in partnership with Morán Morán Gallery in Los Angeles.

​Circle House presents a take on the Japanese tea house in our modern, matcha-obsessed world. By appointment, guests can participate in a traditional tea ceremony within the structure, led by a tea master. The piece takes influence from the Zen aesthetic and philosophical principle of wabi-sabi (finding beauty in imperfection) and modest minimalism. 

Circle House (2026) by Oscar Tuazon.

​Oscar Tuazon is an LA-based sculptor who creates interactive, minimalist works that unpack and critique the structures present within society today. rocky’s matcha, founded in 2022 by Rocky Xu, commissioned Circle House as part of its ongoing evolution as a traveling tea house—one that merges ritual with contemporary cultural spaces. In collaboration with Morán Morán gallery, the project situates ceremony within an art context, dissolving the boundary between installation and inhabitable architecture.

Circle House (2026) by Oscar Tuazon.
Circle House (2026) by Oscar Tuazon.

Circle House is constructed of wood and paper, with tatami mats lining its floors. Visitors enter by crouching to lower themselves, echoing the humility embedded in traditional tea house design and symbolically destroying social hierarchies. Inside, the circular plan eliminates any fixed front or back, encouraging a shared orientation toward the present moment rather than a single focal point.

​It offers a reprieve from the city’s velocity—a space calibrated for slowness, attention, and collective stillness, translating the fleeting brushstroke of the ensō into a structure that can be entered. Circle House opens to the public on February 24.

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