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Party Up

  • Date: January 2022

  • Materials: 65D Liquid Plastic Resin, Acrylic board 

  • Introduction: Alone or party up. Invisible door panels block traditional rituals, also the entry and exit of viruses. Standing in the high-rise overlooking, do you touch the transparent wall or the unknown mind? Is it death or rebirth to fall into the abyss?

Knots

  • Date: December 2021

  • Materials: Fabric, Cotton 

  • Introduction: Weaving feels a lot like rock-climbing. It’s super energetic and I constantly have to keep from getting tangled in the rope or yarn as I move. From the first day of the fiber class we learned different knots, I find that everything in our life is related to knot. Whether it's clothing or human interaction. We created knot with each other and make the connections. I wanted to amplify the knot through this work, even to the point where it could be touched very directly. The audience can also create their own favorite knot by unknot the original one.

Connection

  • ​Date: October, 2021

  • Materials: Acrylic sheet, hot gun, wires, red & blue strings

  • Introduction: I was diagnosed with bells palsy before doing this work. Bells palsy is a facial nerve disease. This disease makes me not able to work for long hours, then I deeply realize the importance of having a healthy body. We often ignore the nervous system and blood vessels, but these two are the most important organ. They connect our whole body. Study and work are important, but the most important thing is be health.

Knots

  • Date: September 2021

  • Material: hemp rope, plaster

  • Introduction: This is a sculpture work done by me and artist Phoebe Heng. We weave the shape of Chinese knots with hemp rope, and then put the Chinese knots in plaster to cure. Phoebe is an Asian American and I am an international student from China. We all have a different and far-reaching understanding of Chinese culture. The Chinese knot wrapped in plaster, just like us, has always maintained a Chinese heart in the American environment and culture.

Seen (Installation)

  • Date: July 2021

  • Materials: wood. 

  • Introduction: I split the wood of the wooden furniture and cut it into different shapes. Finally, I hung these pieces of wood on a big dead tree. Although wooden furniture looks good, it also poses a threat to the ecological environment. This work is to encourage the audience to protect the environment.

Special

  • Date: May 2021

  • Materials: plastic, hot gun

  • Introduction: I use a hot gun to melt and reshape different plastic tableware. Sometimes different forms of beauty are unacceptable and sometimes are shocking people's hearts. There is no shortage of beauty in this world, only the eyes that discover beauty.

Amphibious

  • Date: March, 2021

  • Materials: Napkin, hot gule, acrylic

  • Size: 25*17*25 cm & 14*6*14 cm

  • Introduction: I made two lonely people with napkins, and the shapes were derived from frogs. Frogs are amphibians and can be in water or on land. Just like human beings, we cannot be afraid of being alone, nor can we resist socializing. We need to be a person who can live freely at home and away from home. 

Bloom

  • Date: February, 2021

  • Materials: Dry flowers, hot glue

  • Size: 15*10*18 cm

  • Introduction: I made the withered petals into a beautiful princess dress. Although the withered petals are fragile, it symbolizes completeness and tenacity. Not everyone is born to be a princess, and good qualities are more important than birth background.

In and Out (Installation)

  • Date: March, 2021

  • Date: April 2020 

  • Materials: dry flower, hot glue, fish wire 

  • Introduction: I use withered dried flowers to create a feeling of spraying from the tap, and feel the charm of nature in a private environment. Although the withered flowers have less vitality, they make us yearn for life and freedom more. This work is used to thank and inspire people who have been isolated at home for the epidemic and the anti-epidemic workers who are fighting on the front line.

Borken

  • Date: March, 2020

  • Material: glass, ceramics, AB glue

  • Size: 13*10*7 cm

  • Introduction: I smashed the ceramic and glass bowls and recombined them with AB glue. Both ceramics and glass are extremely the similar but extremely different. They are all fragile items, but they are completely different materials. Broken glass and ceramics made a broken bowl. Things that are incomplete can be just as perfect.

Salmon (Installation)

  • Date: March 2020

  • Materials: plaster, wood, fiber, chicken wire. 

  • Introduction: This is a four people group project. We use plaster and chicken wire to create an upside-down stalactite shape, and we use wood to create an upside-down table that cuts through the stalactite. Salmon are all upstream, just like our work. Do the opposite. We accept the impossible and dare to challenge the impossible. 

Hope

  • Date: February 2020 

  • Materials: cement, flowers 

  • Size: 15*13*8 cm

  • Introduction: I use cement to create a posture of holding flowers on hands. The creation of this work happened at the beginning of the epidemic. Flowers can grow in the crevices of the stone, which means that everything is possible. Don't give up hope, and the future will grow towards the sun.

Snowflake

  • Date: October 2019

  • Materials: Acrylic 

  • Size: 22*13*18 cm

  • Introduction: Inspired by Lego bricks, I used laser cutting to create snowflakes that can be joined together. Every snowflake is different, and the combination of snowflakes built by different people will be different. The audience can split and reassemble the snowflakes and splice them into their inner appearance.

Calm

  • Date: September 2019

  • Materials: hard board, acrylic, hot glue, stick 

  • Size: 40*50*40 cm

  • Introduction: 3D Buddha statues of different levels are made through hardboard, and different expressions of Buddha statues can be seen from different angles.

© 2022 By Hongjin Chen

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