Fu Youfeng, an undergraduate graduate from the Textile Design Department of the School of Fashion Design, showcased the traditional Chinese flower-making techniques in her textile work “One Flower, One World”, which won a gold award.
In her creation “One Flower, One World”, Fu uses the imagery of ephemeral bloom to express her unique understanding of the eternal moment. Human life is like a flower, starting from a small seed, gradually growing, blossoming, bearing fruit, and finally returning to the seed form, cycling endlessly. The inspiration for the work comes from traditional Qinggong, which means “pure offerings” in Chinese. In her creation, Fu integrates various intangible cultural heritage flower-making crafts, including silk wrapping, velvet flowers, silk flowers, and ironing flowers, using indoor decorations to create Qinggong flower arrangements and velvet flower craft wall hangings, solidifying the fleeting beauty of the ephemeral bloom into an eternal artistic expression.
This series of works expresses the author’s understanding of “the fleeting moment is eternity” through the language of textile and intangible cultural heritage crafts. The work captures the transient beauty and essence of life, solidifying it into “eternal flowers” through traditional textile crafts like velvet flowers and silk wrapping. Extending from dynamic installations to two-dimensional textile wall hangings, the creation narrates the time-space dimension transformation through patterns: from moment to eternity, from intangible cultural heritage to revitalization, from multidimensional life spaces to two-dimensional symbols. Additionally, the work breaks the conventional forms of intangible cultural heritage flower-making, using fashionable gradient colors to express the layers and textures of velvet flowers. Transforming traditional velvet flower headpieces into space decorations, and further into pattern decorations, it provides new ideas and creative angles for the revitalization of intangible cultural heritage.
One Flower, One World
Artist: Fu Youfeng (School of Fashion Design)
Instructor: Jiang Tutu
