Profile: YU-CHUN SHEN – Real Leather Design Competitions

YU-CHUN SHEN

Lee-Ming Institute of Technology

From 🇹🇼Taiwan, born and raised in Taipei. My mother is Vietnamese, so I am a Taiwanese-Vietnamese child and the eldest in the family. I am cheerful, easy-going, helpful, and a quirky girl. My hobbies are dancing, manicure, KPOP, and NCT. I was born in an ordinary family. I studied cosmetology at Zhuangjing Vocational High School in high school. I don't want to continue to choose cosmetology in the next stage. I want to change to another field and become a brand new me, improve myself, learn different things, and increase my interests and hobbies. I chose a department that feels familiar and unfamiliar in college, the Department of Fashion. At the beginning, I was like a baby, starting from zero basics, how to make a bag, how to pull the shoe upper, how to weld metalwork, and I studied for four years, and I also learned a lot. For example, when I carved animals in the wax carving class, I carved out the three-dimensional sense and layers of the animals, which gave me a new understanding. So I am grateful for my willingness to change my career path. I will keep doing what I like. After graduation, I went to Australia for a working holiday and accompanied my mother. I worked on a farm for a year and a half, and my experience became much richer. Sometimes I would go to my mother's workplace to work part-time and learned a lot. In 2025, there will be some changes in my family, and I plan to return to Taiwan and find a new job.

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Category: Design*

Competitions: Taiwan Region

Due to the impact of the epidemic, pineapples cannot be exported. If the problem of these unexportable agricultural products is not resolved immediately, it will definitely cause heavy losses to farmers. From this perspective, the importance of local agricultural products is once again taken into account by people's livelihood needs, and they are no longer foreign varieties that choose to cross the sea to Taiwan. Perhaps we should reflect on when we turned to admiring the moon, which is popular abroad, and ignored the stars outside our window. Pineapples are very representative in Taiwan. I think pineapples are not just food. To some extent, they symbolize the progress of farmers. Early varieties were sour and astringent. It was the farmers' continuous experimentation, progress, and improvement that gave us the opportunity to be seen by the world. They are a witness to the farmers' hard work and pursuit of excellence. I am proud to be born here. The grassroots spirit flowing in my blood and bones gives me endless creative energy. Finally, I want to say that we only have one life, so we should do our best to live our lives to the best of our ability, so as not to let down the farmers who nourish us. As the saying goes, "Without the bone-chilling cold, how can the fragrance of plum blossoms be so fragrant?" This is the greatest resonance I have found with this work.