Out of box was inspired by my two parrot brothers. One of them can fly freely in my home, so he can be close to my family plants, such as orchids. Another parrot brother can't fly out of the cage without anyone at home. Thus, he have no chance to touch nature because he was afraid of strange environments. I wanted to create a natural atmosphere for him, and after the rain in Beijing, I collected some plants with different smells with dew in the garden downstairs and mixed them with the food he usually eats, such as beans, melon seeds, etc., to enhance the smell of nature. I also mixed it with boiled Pu'er tea to enhance the texture and freshness of the smell.

My ultimate goal is to give off in the "box" of bird cages the smell of nature, mixed with the smell of grain in the bird’s body, the freshness of plants after rain, the smell of earth, the smell of grain itself, and the smell of tea.

I was inspired by the song V- The big lord of lives

“Age creeps on apace, all will soon be over; Not to draw nearer is to drift further apart.”

“The sadder I grow; but what does sadness help? If only it could be forever as time it was! But man’s fate is fixed’ from meetings and partings none can ever escape”.

I feel the poet's discussion of life through poetry. Life is short, but I think that looking at life from a higher dimensional perspective, in fact, as long as we have existed in this world, that period of time will be fixed in this world. Therefore, in our view of the three-dimensional world, life is limited, but perhaps from a high-dimensional perspective, life is infinite.

I collected some rags of vintage fabrics, which represent some traces of our lives in this world. They are mixed together with wool felt. For the color of wool felt, I chose a color close to human skin tone. I used hot soapy water to shape the wool felt, and added benzoin, agilawood, sandalwood, and osmanthus fragrance to the water. Because I think life is heavy and textured. After that, I put the antique fabrics I collected into wool felt fabrics. It echoes my thoughts and freezes the traces of our lives, thus expressing that life is eternal.

I was inspired by the view from the “forest” in the park next to my home. First, I went to the woods at dusk for inspiration, and I took pictures of some of the easily forgotten scenes and printed them down to make hard cards.

The twilight of the forest gives me the feeling of adding a touch of warmth to the gradually cold weather, and the forest gives me the feeling of mystery and fog surrounding me.

So I made perfume out of dried flowers, deciduous leaves, some herbs in the forest, and lavender and put it on my printed cards. Made of incense with forest mystery.

I also made boxes out of kraft paper and matte paper.

Green: Leaves, pine trees, lotus leaves, roses, branches, clover, lavender, mint.

Light Flower: Hosta, corn leaves, lilies, jasmine.

Dark Flower: Blueberries, gypsophila, rose, pomegranate, lavender, purple cabbage.

Dark Woods: Bark, broccoli, corn leaves, cabbage, green peppers, green onions, branches

Resin: chrysanthemums, sugar cane, sand, caterpillars, mine flowers, branches, pine cones.

Body: Pear peel, apple peel, cauliflower, corn leaves, branches, gypsophila, leaves, daisies, roses.

Sweet: Lavender, jasmine, mint.

Smoke: Cigarette butts, soot, black tea, benzoin.

Stone: Bark, sand, gravel, white crystal, ginger, cinnamon, peanut bark.