Ruolan focuses on things themselves, resisting categorization. Her practice explores material agency, seeking to reveal the tension between anthropocentric codification and the resistance of the material world. She is particularly drawn to the vitality that emerges when two distinct materials converge, observing how they interact and activate space and memory. Moving fluidly across painting, drawing, print, and installation, her work challenges existing meanings and invites viewers to reconsider the poetic agency of the material world.