Beauty master's degree has lived in the countryside for 4 years, making pottery, chicken breeding dishes every day: No anxiety

Xi'an girl Liang Wanying in 89,

In 2018, he graduated from the top ceramic department in the United States.

Because I don't like social,

She and her husband decided to move to rural life,

Because of this, very lucky during the epidemic

Maintain a peaceful and peaceful life,

Their daily life surrounds pottery, coaxing baby, chicken raising and planting vegetables.

Liang Wanying's creation during pregnancy

In 2019, her master's graduation work,

Once on behalf of Chinese ceramic artists, they were invited to exhibit at the V & A Museum in the UK;

In 2021, she was also invited to display new works at the Shanghai Pearl Museum of Art.

Regarding identity anxiety and thinking about women's bodies,

Make her work shine and very aura.

Since the epidemic, she has had two children,

The biggest regret is to be unable to reunite with mother and family,

The ceramic series "Mom · Container" is a tribute to the identity of the mother.

In June, a remote interview with Liang Wanying,

She told us the seclusion life since the epidemic,

And more than 10 years of ceramics creation.

Self -report: Liang Wanying

Edit: Chen Qin

Responsible editor: Chen Ziwen

I was born in a small county on the side of Xi'an, and I moved to Xi'an to live in middle school. In my teens, my friend and I were shopping with a bell and drum tower next to me. I took a walk with my mother after a few steps. Therefore, ancient buildings are like the background scattered in memory, and it has also become part of my nostalgia memory.

I remember my teenage, the most sad age, I was immersed in the stable and ancient atmosphere of ancient buildings. , But a very peaceful temperament.

Up: Childhood under Xi'an: During the Jingdezhen period

After graduating from the Department of Ceramics of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, I started the "scenery" for five years. In Jingdezhen, there are many young people who are engaged in ceramic art creation like me. Most of us do not have a fixed job. They rent a house with a yard and create a life.

In the Jingdezhen period, "Shadow" and "Chaos"

Jingdezhen has a slow atmosphere, and people become slowly. They go to the market to buy food with their classmates, cook themselves, or go to the mountains. We go to Sanbao Mountain most often. I occasionally go to the pottery market to set up stalls.

Liang Wanying's works "Transplant"

Blue is a memory of living in Jingdezhen

Although my life in Jingdezhen is quite suitable for me, a few years later, I feel that I don't seem to grow up anymore, and I feel a bit of turning in place. Culturally, the stimulus that Jingdezhen gave me and the impulse that made me want to explore was obviously not enough.

In 2016, I decided to go to different cultural environments for a while. Alfred University should be my best choice because it has always been the highest ranking school in the United States. Of course, there are very real factors. Provide me with full scholarship.

The pottery sculpture made is waiting for air drying

In China, I basically create mud and glazes I bought. There are also technicians who can help. After studying abroad, I started to complete each process of the production of ceramic art independently, which also has something to do with the cultural environment. After Western experience arts and crafts, the whole process of the artist and craftsmen independently respects the entire process.

The way to treat ceramic art on both sides is not the same. In China, ceramics and culture and history are deeply connected. We have awe of pottery and focus on inheriting this side. But in the United States, the beginning of ceramics is to "break". If we look at the works of Peter Waltis, the father of modern ceramics, we will know why the pottery they make is so strange.

The exhibition "I don't know the body is a guest in the dream" 2018

"I don't know that my body is a guest", I started to create during my master's degree. Once in the classroom, the teacher asked us to refer to ourselves in a word. I used Foreigner directly. A American classmate told me that to some extent, we are all foreign people. I just reacted, not just the physical level, spiritually, each of us may be foreign people.

Later, this series of works also became the work of my graduation exhibition. I remember that the situation was very sleepy at the time, and I felt like I was going to enter the elephant with a room full of porcelain. There was a sense of anxiety in identity.

I remember there was a news about Foxconn's workers, which moved me very much. The poet wrote a poem, "I swallow a moon with an iron work, and they call it screw."

Liang Wanying is making the horse legs at the bottom of the sculpture

I think there are people who cannot count in this world, because of their livelihood, they have to stay in a city that is difficult to integrate. Even people living in their hometown may feel isolated and not understood.

The height of these white sculptures I made is similar to that of people. The lower half looks like a tight leg leg with muscles, supporting the entire sculpture, just like each of us who are struggling and living hard.

Creative manuscript

"Return to the Flower" 2021

"Ni" 2021

In the upper part of the sculpture, the element of the building comes from my memory of my hometown; the elements of the plant want to show a vitality; the hollow structure is from my imagination of the temple Buddha, and I hope it can cause a kind of viewing and exploration the behavior of.

Through the work, I hope to record the feelings of as a flesh and blood as much as possible, so it shows a cruel, confusing, greedy side, and a beautiful and quiet side. These things are superimposed together. Essence I am also willing to provide a greater understanding of the audience, conveying curiosity, empathy and tolerance for the world and others. The "transplantation" series is the creation of my graduate graduation after graduating from a graduate.

I often remember life in different places. Every city seems to have different colors. I think my childhood was rose; when I went to college in Beijing, the memories seemed to be yellow.

"Transplantation" series

In the years in Jingdezhen, I always feel that it is shrouded under a blue -moved to every different environment, and our lives will bring the color left by the previous environment.

In the new environment, should we immediately put on a new color, or do we keep our own color? So I named this series "transplantation". These blue and yellow sculptures are commemorative for past life.

"Mom · Container" series

The "Mom · Container" series, I started to do it before pregnancy. At that time, I missed my mother very much. After I lived alone here for several years, I realized that my mother for decades for decades, how hard it was to cook and clean up the house.

A family is also closely linked because of the care of the mother, which feels like a family. So I want to make some works related to my mother. My mother likes flowers very much, so I made some vessels like flowers.

Later, I was pregnant myself, and gave birth to a new life in my body. I describe the female body as a flower that can make fruit. This is a very beautiful process, but it cannot ignore the confusion and inner conflict that our women experienced in this process.

Children are also robbing space with their mother and grabbing the right to use their bodies. Therefore, the struggle and beauty in the breeding process exist at the same time. The hard work is not a need for women, but the choice of women.

The entire mother · container series has more than twenty. The latest works I made with a pink background to take pictures. I want to choose a pink color that can better show the gentle color of women, which is a bit like the color of the uterus. I remember when having a child, my husband looked at the whole process in the delivery room, and he told me what the uterus looked like.

Created with mud materials, it can be said that it is an art that uses time to pour. In addition to finishing the work little by little, we must wait patiently and wait for the air to dry and fired. In the process of waiting for molding, I feel that I can pass the emotions that can accumulate in my heart through the movements of my hand to the soil, and then convert it into the temperament of my work.

Our social environment seems to be encouraging a very fast response, but I still feel that it should be slow to slow down, so that there is room for space to truly feel and understand life.

Liang Wanying Studio's corner

Tools needed for ceramics

In ceramic techniques, my own favorite should be mud ducts. This is the most primitive ceramic forming method of human beings, which makes me feel very free. For big sculptures, I usually draw sketches to determine the size I want to do, and start several parts at the same time.

I think the reason why art is attractive is that there are some languages ​​and logic that cannot be explained for the time being. For the interpretation of art, it is always just a cat to paint a tiger. At this moment I explained my work, I was not very sure, and I was just talking about my feelings.

The work is exhibited at the Shanghai Pearl Museum of Art

After the work is done, it is an independent existence. We do art, just like giving a person who has not felt the wind to explain the wind. Even if it can understand it, it is difficult to really understand the feeling of the breeze.

I just think that some things seem to be expressed, and I also try to clarify my intention and meaning, but I also understand that some things do not fully understand even if I do it. Virgo.

village life

The life in the past few years is very different from the past. The first thing I heard when I woke up in the morning was the bird call, as if I had a maintenance of the ears, and the sound was really pleasant.

I am actually a relatively anxious person. Usually the crowded environment in the city will make me feel very tired even if nothing is done. After moving to the countryside, he returned to a very simple life, learning planting, chicken raising, and various living skills. I also have a great natural space. Looking at the open scenery, my mood will become better, and the pressure and anxiety will be reduced.

Spring in the countryside

Winter in the countryside

The place where I live in winter is quite long. From November to April, it will be snowing, and even in May, there will often be a snow scene.

June is the most beautiful time here. The grass and trees have begun to germinate. You can feel the color changes almost every day. The trees slowly covered with a layer of tender and tender new green from dry gray brown. Too hot, we often take our children to the mountains.

Flashing fireflies in the yard

In the evening, when the sun dropped, we took a walk on the path at the door of the house to see the scenery of the sunset. When the sun was later, the sun went down, and the sky became a dark blue. Sometimes I stand there and don't want to go home for a long time.

Sometimes I will ask friends to come to the house. I can see the stars in the middle of the night. Because my family is on the hillside, there is no light pollution around, so watching the stars will be particularly clear, and sometimes you can see the galaxy. Chicken, ducks and harvested vegetables

We raised 20 chickens and watched them watching bugs in the mountains during the day and chasing each other. We felt very happy. Although we did not have any great skills, it could make a group of chickens who may be a hen in the sky. In the happiest life, we will also have a sense of satisfaction.

Every day we will chop the kitchen waste to feed the chickens, and the hens will give back to our eggs. The chicken dung in the chicken house will take it with the rice leaves, the leaves that can not be eaten, and the chicken will be used to feed the chicken This kind of cycle makes me have a sense of balance and satisfaction. I will feel that this is what people's lives should have.

The couple took the baby to hiking

My husband is also studying ceramic materials. He is going to work on weekdays, and he will not be with me for a few days a week. Now we have two children. When the child was young, I put him on the bed. As I made pottery, I coaxed him to fall asleep. He woke up and he was toy in it.

Once my mother chatted with me, she was worried, saying that you don't have a fixed job now, what do you do?

I still think about how to reply, my mother said, but you have a happy life, right? My daughter's life is most important, so I guess they should be a state of worrying and understanding.

The biggest regret in the past two years is that the family cannot be seen in real time under the epidemic. But we will video in two or three days, so I know their situation and their situation more. I also hope that the epidemic can be faster and can reunite with their families.

Although the place where I live is far away from people's smoke and is almost secluded, I will upload myself to the Internet to the Internet. I found that the audience who watched my video often gave me similar feedback. I felt that my video seemed to bring a cure to others, indicating that this feeling could be passed on.

A 76 -year -old audience told me that he was going to learn ceramics now. Thank you very much for sharing the creative process. He learned a lot. When I saw a message at that time, I felt so admired. At the age of 76, I could start to learn a new skill.

I also hope that I will be courageous to start one thing like him until the twilight years.

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