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I was inspired by Japanese garden painting. During my research I learnt that the content of Japanese garden painting comes from a traditional Japanese environmental art design dry-landscape design. Dry-landscape design is a garden art that uses sand and stones to express the flow of water and mountains, and static things to express dynamic things. This reminds me of the old Chinese saying 'time is like flowing water'. In the dry landscape, time is forbidden, the grains of sand make the ripples of flowing water, time seems to be turning, but in fact it is confined to a fixed environment, it is like the life of a human being, each one can have different lifestyles, habits, hobbies, but no one can escape the cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death. I have divided the life of a person into 4 stages, baby and old man putting in one group, child, teenager and adult. The idea of putting the old man and the baby in one stage is the main idea I want to convey, that one life leaves...

  I use crochet techniques to create the textures and shapes of the vegetables and use textile techniques to stitch them onto plastic bags. The Final Product Figure

 After last week's failed attempt, this week I used ordinary textile materials in place of traditional food. The final selection of appropriate small samples combined with the bags selected in the first week made two options for the finished product. Plastic sequins sewing (instead of fish scales) Knitting Plastic bag collection The finished product to show Plan 1 Plan  2

T his week I've been experimenting with different prototypes and trials to test the feasibility of my design plans. Before doing this I did some drawing on the computer and made two design schematics. This one was inspired by the poem ' The Butterfly Hiding from the Rain ' by Lin Ping. The poem describes a butterfly that gets lost and enters the poet's window when a rainstorm is coming. I combined the butterfly with traditional Chinese costume patterns to create my first design, 'Butterfly Labyrinth', and put Lin Ping's poetry on the back of the bag. For the materials test I made a specimen of the butterfly  and after the specimen had dried  I found that the butterfly's wings were too fragile  to be used as a material for my work. The inspiration for this image came from the food I buy every day  and I used a combination of fish scales  and kale to make this design. I collected fish scales from the market and preserved them by deep-frying  and baking the...

I was automatically placed in the textile group because of the online classes. My understanding of this topic is to put together something that can be used (in other words, to take something that was originally discarded and transform it by weaving it). 1. Keynote: the development of your material awareness throughout the this project aims to explore the ramifications of mending for this project you will you will design a new life to to a redundant object 2.  Material Differences: Wool, cotton thread, cloth, locking needles, paper clips, thumbtacks, flowers, vegetables, peels... 3. Different version, different stitching methods (design, technology) Sketchbook(Inspiration 1) Because of her old age, my grandmother always forgets to take her environmental bags when she goes to the supermarket, so she often buys plastic bags in the supermarket and she was too thrifty to throw them away, they piled up around the house. This time I want to try this kind of plastic bag for texti...