LEAH CHAN

Designer biography:

The designer graduated from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK, majoring in fashion artifact. At the postgraduate stage, she focused on the research of organic sustainable materials, as well as the relationship between the sensory experience of handicrafts and cultural identity. At present, the designer continues to try to create with the production method of grain handicrafts she has developed. She thinks that choosing important foods and cooking is a kind of "self-metaphor" to think about the relationship between oneself and others. Constructing one's identity is a symbolic practice and value shaping process that travels through time.

Collection concept:

Piece 1: - Lightness of Being-

Coming from China with a very developed food culture, I am interested in exploring the connection between food, perception, time and space, and memory. I think that choosing important foods and cooking is a kind of "self-metaphor" to think about the relationship between oneself and others. Constructing one's identity is a symbolic practice and value shaping process that travels through time. The material for this work comes from a handful of brown rice that has been wormed for too long. These foods have nourished my spirit and my flesh for over 20 years; If the soul has form, I believe that an important component of it is definitely grain; Transcendence for me is related to letting go of one's own sins; The expired and inedible food is because of my laziness and forgetfulness. In my life, I have too many regrets and unwillingness due to the above two reasons. At the end of many stories, they have become an unbearable sense of alienation in my life. They are the coldness in my soul.

Piece 2: Avalokiteśvara - The theme of the work is about religion, technology, food and love; the title of the work "Guanyin" has two meanings, the first one is the author's guidance of the Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva's "seeing the emptiness of the five skandhas, and eliminating the suffering of all the doom" for the contemporary times, and the second one is to reflect the author's stories and voices that he has observed in his one life;

Leah Chan (China)

LEAH CHAN

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