In “Nothing Last Forever”, I reflected my feelings about society. The studio making process brought me to have a self-reflection on the relationship between metal and ready-made objects in the work.

After I reviewed my previous studio practice, I found I like to use a lot of metal to encase the subject, I am not sure but it may be my way to hold or to defend the things I aware of. I like to work with brass strangers, so I use it to create a scaffold to wrap up the object. Scaffold represents transformation and protection. Maybe dismantle, maybe reconstruction, maybe new construction, I have no way to stop things from changing, and I can only believe things will be developing a good direction.

Tremella is easy to find in the grocery store. Unfortunately, the grocery store is hard to find nowadays. It is fragile, easily crushed, and destroyed. I used a strong metal scaffold to wrap it up to protect it. But this one is not a steady method, Tremella will still wither. In fact, it is futile, seemingly good may only happen in a flash.

It expressed a trace of frustration when I face society. We do not have the power to change the things around us, there is nothing to stay fascinated by no matter how we paid effort into it. You can never seize things around, you can only look around all the changes. It represented a powerless feeling for me.