"Original and well executed, this work fuses discarded wood with traditional cross-stitch."
-------- Review from Future Art & Design Award
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Project description
This work was born from a renewed appreciation for "surplus value"—transforming leftover wood from furniture factory cutting into a vessel that carries culture. Once considered discarded, these wood scraps are handcrafted into vibrant totems in Taiwanese Aboriginal cross-stitch, woven stitch by stitch using traditional techniques. Each stitch celebrates the wisdom of the ancestors.
The combination of wood and cross-stitch is both a dialogue between materials (hard and soft, natural and artificial) and a suture of time and space: the remnants of industrial production are reborn through the intervention of craftsmanship; contemporary interpretations of Aboriginal symbols offer a unique perspective on tradition.