Chen Shuyan - Shimmering Flowers and Trees

Chen Shuyan, a fiber creator born in Luye Gaotai, Taitung, likes spiritual creations developed with original natural materials and ancient crafts. She is good at using bark cloth, three-dimensional handmade paper, plant dyeing, bamboo and rattan weaving and other plant fibers and composite media to create three-dimensional works. Shape and environmental space installation. Since 2005, he has returned to his childhood home on the east coast to assist in the continuation and innovative development of traditional tribal crafts. In order to preserve precious traditional crafts and maintain a dialogue with nature, we jointly established the Light Weaving House (Bat Hongan) with the Kavalan craftsman Duwak Duyao, and actively invested in the research and development of local materials and technologies. Combined with tribal craftsmen, we continue to use the original spirit of Sanku bamboo and rattan weaving fish traps, bark cloth, plant dyeing, handmade paper and other ancient crafts and local materials, retaining the processing and technical heritage of the materials, and innovatively applying them into simple and warm contemporary art. Creation, life lighting art and space environment installation. Returning to the original intimate relationship between people and the land, using local original materials and ancient craftsmanship, weaving a simple and warm contemporary aesthetic, calling out the light of the natural soul within everyone!