recycled materials

Hello, everyone. Today I wanna have a talk to discuss my previous works and most recent works. I simply summarize all those works into three categories: paper works, recycling material works and previous works. From early on, I am fascinated with geometric forms and material's properties. My preference and understanding of geometric forms roots from my preliminary art training and my personally rational thinking. You will see, among all my works, I attempt to explore as many types of media as possible to broaden my understanding of each material's chacteristics and its capability of the art expression. Recently, I swtich my early interests, focusing on architectural form and its relationship with the environment, to emphasises of the relationships among cultures, personal lives and modern societies.

Let's begin with the first part of this talk: paper and cardboard works.


In our house we ordered many magazines and newspapers. They piled up day by day. One day, I picked up a piece of paper from a magazine. I tried to create a Origami bird. I was fascinated by this simple structure. So I assembled many birds together into a complicated form as above.

I did more practices with the paper. In this work, I disassembled a magazine into many small pieces, then organized them into a simple form with abundant colors and textures, which representing the diversity in modern society.

Does the bubble wrap look like poodle's fur? It's called Bubble Wrap Poodle. One may find some ironic air in this work, especially when you touch the curving surface.

Made in China. It's about the disappearance of the traditional culture in the modern commercial life. The pottery is one of the most common commodities in ancient China. I am using cardboard to make those ancient potteries, which styles originated from Ming and Qing dynasties. These potteries represent the essence of the Chinese culture. I cut the cardboard into many circles with different radius and stack them up into a shape of a pottery. But the contour is rugged because of the texture of the cardboard and finite layers, which symbolize digitalization of the modern life. Though cardboard is a recycling material, it’s interesting to turn the waste into a treasure. I believe we could always look back and find some valuable experience in history, even though it has already elapsed.

Handwriting is a one of important cultures in China and Chinese Character "Hanzi" is the fundamental element in Chinese cultures. I am attempting to resemble Chinese calligraphy into a 3d structural form by using cardboards.