HEAL THE INDUSTRY
by showcasing the possibilities of upcycling with brands, shops, corporate, green groups and artists.
The Trashed Nature / 2016
A zero-waste upcycled art exhibition at Laboratory for Taiwan Eastcoast Land Art Festival in Taitung.
As we all cannot deny that we’re facing to severe environmental & social crisis due to over-consumption; our earth is taking tons of usable trash everyday in everywhere. It’s impossible for the landfill to digest such a gigantic amount of trash in irrational speed. Upcycling usable trash in an artistic way is my mission, I collected abandoned textile waste plus disposable waste (e.g. plastic bottles or anything disposable picked up from nature…) to simulate the beauty of the natural environment in Taitung, in order to let audiences introspect that we may need to re-build such naturally-given environment with our trash in the future, because we ruin all natural resources with underestimation of their value and the natural law.
The Umbrella Dress / 2018
An upcycled dress combines traditional bogagi patchwork and the embroidery made by
Machiko Ikeyama from Shobu Gakeun, Kagoshima.
I also give a new mission to my broken umbrella that had sheltered me for 5 years.
"I am fascinated by Machiko’s work! It seems like a profound philosopher's thinking path to me. Machiko’s work is doubled sided, as you can look at it from both the front and back of her embroidery, that is why I deliberately used see-through material for our collaboration piece. In order to show my appreciation and respect, I preserved the originality of her embroidery, coupled with my story and inspiration on this journey. I combined traditional Korean patchwork technique, ‘bojagi’ and the frame of my umbrella which I have used for five years and was broken during the trip, to make this upcycled umbrella-shaped dress."
Photo by Phoebe Wong Hoi San
At minä perhonen, Kyoto / 2018
A 3-day work at minä perhonen in Kyoto for redesigning an off-season dress into a draw-string top and a hat with egg shaped brim.
Exhibition at Pleasure, Nagoya / 2018
Redesign exhibition alongside with Japanese upcycling fashion brand, Atelier Rei, at Pleasure, a select shop in Nagoya.
The Fashion Milagros / 2019
Co-created with So Wan, we pay tribute to the masterpieces. We re-experienced how were created and recreate the key details into multi-purpose accessories for different looks.
They are all made of unbleached and half-processed calico from the stock fabric market.
We hope the multi-styled apparels are like “Milagros”, which means “miracles”, found in many areas of Latin America, especially Mexico and Peru, bringing good feeling and connection.
