Lili Broce
lilibroce.comI am a designer and artist working across print, creative coding, and interaction design. My practice is guided by curiosity, care, and a strong commitment to concept. I’m less interested in making for the sake of form, and more invested in the meaning a piece holds and how that meaning develops over time.
My process is inherently experimental. I tend to begin with questions rather than fixed outcomes, allowing research, iteration, and uncertainty to shape the work as it unfolds. I value not fully knowing where something will land, and this openness lets each project evolve alongside my thinking. Learning is central to how I work, not as a separate phase but as something embedded within the act of making.
I move fluidly between digital systems and hands-on processes, and I’m especially interested in how different materials and methods shape perception and experience. Recently, I’ve begun exploring more sculptural and physical forms, with a growing interest in installation-based practices and how work can exist spatially as well as on a screen or page. Grounded in empathy and a desire for connection, I aim to create thoughtful, engaging work that invites reflection and fosters relationships; between people, environments, and the systems they move through.
A Practice in Attention
A Practice in Attention is my attempt to visualize attention as an act and as something that is built over time through care and intention. Attention is not an inherent skill, it’s something that must be cultivated. Our attention has not been lost; it’s been stolen, redirected by social media, capitalism, and the constant pressure to always be doing something. This project began as a response to that condition, and as a personal effort to reclaim a sense of agency over how I focus and move through the world and how I might better understand my own local environment.
I was deeply inspired by the work of Jenny Odell, particularly after rereading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. At the same time, I was engaging with ideas around bioregionalism, local awareness and small-scale attention, and thinking about the role of the self within larger systems. All of these influences came together to shape this project, grounding my interest in attention as something relational and connected to place, proximity, and the environments I move through. Attention, in this sense, becomes a form of care and a way of building relationships with what is immediately around me.
This installation mirrors my own attention practice. It invites active, intentional looking; slowly, thoughtfully, and with patience. The act of paying attention is a deliberate and generative process of noticing, choosing, and relating. Rather than asking the viewer to understand everything at once, the work suggests that engagement begins with simply noticing. The act of looking becomes both the method and the meaning of the piece. In this way, the installation offers a space to practice attention, and to reflect on how what we choose to notice shapes our relationships to place, to others, and to our everyday lives.