ZIQI YUAN

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黄桷兰
2024
Cotton, steel wire, wax thread
The Michelia champaca is a flower that blooms in my hometown, Chongqing, China. When in season, its fragrance can fill an entire street. Elderly women often collect the blossoms, string them together with needle and thread, and make them into brooches to sell by the roadside.

























A Poem for Hometown
2025
The flowers are memories trapped in time, and the red coral is a poem I write to my hometown. Memory is like poetry. The blank spaces within it are the sobs of homesickness, and also the places where emotions can settle and grow. This yearning for home clings to me like rust, corroding gently, until every thought of it brings back the scent of damp air from my hometown.

Projects: ❶ Bed  ❷ Spoons ❸ Stone❹ Carrying Your Space with Me ❺ 黄桷兰❻ Cut ❼ 母形 ❽ Her Shrank Being