Lotus vases

The idea for these two pieces came about over last summer, when I heard that my grandmother had been diagnosed with cancer, and while I was sad, memories from my childhood suddenly came to me. When I was in elementary school, I used to go to my grandmother's house for lunch every day after school, and the window of her dining room faced a lotus field, every summer when we had lunch, we could smell the fresh smell of lotus flowers and leaves and see a piece of lotus leaves floating in the wind. With this feeling I created these two vases, on the one hand to commemorate the past, and on the other hand for my grandmother, who I hope will continue to accompany us in good health, like the lotus leaf, which is still pure and healthy even though it comes from mud (disease). Also, in Chinese proverbs, the leaves are always described as supporting characters and the flowers are more beautiful. But I think the leaves are equally important, and there is no superiority between leaves and flowers, so I chose to use the element of lotus leaves to make this vase instead of lotus flowers.