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SHU-YI ZHOU

Shih Chien University

I am currently studying in the Department of Fashion Design and Management, with a focus on the relationship between material application and everyday life. In my work, I value material efficiency and practicality, aiming to bring objects back to their essential functions while expanding their possibilities for use through design.

Interwoven Life

Category: Accessories

Competitions: Taiwan Region

This work is inspired by the structural form of handmade woven bracelets. In these bracelets, cords are used to wrap around stones and flowers, presenting a state in which natural elements are interconnected—much like how life is guided, attached, and coexists within its environment. Leather was once part of a living being, carrying the traces of life. When it is transformed into an object, it is also given a new beginning. This work regards leather as a life that has not yet come to an end. Through a woven structure, it intertwines leather with the continuous vitality of plants, symbolizing new life quietly emerging from what has died. Within this cycle of regeneration and decay, all things ultimately return as nourishment, merging back into nature.

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