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Attempting to bring back the freedom of growth and make reconciliations with the material world that is full of dissimilated desires.
Garment construction and materials both have a focus on expressing desires. Human longing for love, appetite and beauty.
By improving the dessert decorating techniques. The combination of wafer paper and parachute silk creates edible fabrics that serve the narrative.
Based on the excessive packaging waste, I see clothing as a kind of packaging for human. Thus I create packageable garment using ancient resilient textiles like Ramie, and translate the fading skills like Gambiered Guangdong dyeing into a modern way that welcomes domestic kitchen waste and river mud. The garment constructions inspired by traditional dresses and their zero-waste pattern cuttings also refer to the package template.
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Looking back on the somewhat painful experience, I took that feeling and transformed the story into different materials from a third person narrative and try to convey the freedom of understanding. I painted a picture book with my memory and feelings. Thick brushstrokes on paper expressing my strong reluctance, waste materials combined with rice paper stand for confusions.
Consequently, the combination of paper-making and traditional Chinese silk rayon has achieved a strong and recyclable fabric.
In order to challenge the perspective, I also took advantage of Augmented Reality(AR) technology, making a series of picture book theme lens and uploaded them online. Within only two weeks, two of my lens had gained 500 views in total on Snapchat. It provided me with a new platform to give expression.