Combines sculpture and functionality, creating forms through both intentional and unintentional actions. By exploring the material, weight, size, color, and texture, I attempt to understand how the physical world, which is usually imperceptible to humans, subtly shapes our experiences.
The concept of "upcycling" is indispensable in the work, transforming discarded or seemingly useless materials into new, valuable creations. By repurposing materials that might otherwise become waste, it emphasizes the potential beauty and functionality inherent in often overlooked or discarded objects, or serves as a metaphor for renewal.
Swaying Vessels - Growth & Birth (2024)
This group of work represents a continued exploration of paper mâché as an eco-friendly material. Each sculpture is crafted from recycled paper pulp, meticulously shaped, cut, painted, and polished by hand, preserving the original handmade traces.
The work focuses on the interrelationships between plants, land, life, and the body, exploring how the act of creation can be seen as a means of existence. Can these rational, restrained, swaying, cute, and innocent descriptive languages be embodied in various forms and containers? Containers are often metaphorically likened to symbols of the body, with paper mâché perceived as skin. The aim is to turn each sculpture into an inception of context, akin to a plant that continuously grows and spreads. Each body is wrapped in skin, and every narrative seems to be filled with imagination, providing them with a "nest."
Each object originates from this vision: fluctuating between sculpture and functionality, and expressing slowly between form, color, and texture.
Fake Vessels (2020-2023)
These sculptures embody upcycling, innocence, instinct, and playfulness, retaining the original handmade traces and twisting into interesting overall shapes that project primitivist forms. By experimenting with various humble materials combined with pulp, the effects are explored. This is a slow but playful process, gradually building a personal relationship with each piece and engaging in a dialogue with it. Starting with a typical shape, it gradually twists into characters full of uncertainty, losing rules and definitions, and like magic, evokes numerous possibilities, such as a bird or an angry stone.
The personal time spent with each piece is very unique. Each piece exhibits its own distinct personality through its animated natural forms, feminine shapes, and vibrant colors. The dialogue between self and nature, the mutual folding of objects and structures, creates a symmetrical or asymmetrical balance. Exploring the feeling of "container form" from the shape, color, and material blurs the boundaries between sculpture and container, embodying wrapping, enveloping, and containing. It emphasizes desire and the subtle imprint of individual existence, dazzling color and shape changes, breaking the stereotypes of traditional sculpture/ware, and stimulating the poetic imagination of the audience and the personal experience harvested in the subconscious.
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