My wearable model was inspired by artist Liang Shaoji’s exhibition “Silkworm I Silkworm”, which is located in Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art.

This exhibition systematically combs the “nature series” of works jointly created by man and silkworm. “silkworm” is not only his creative medium, but also gives him the motive force of creation and the spirit of nature.

The exhibition invites people to feel their own feelings, incarnate themselves as silkworms, and experience the exhibition, so that people can understand and feel the life cycle of silkworms from hatching to becoming butterflies. Liang Shaoji put the silkworm on the building he created. The silk can strengthen the gap of the fiber and grow slowly with the building.

I made three circles from the head to the face and then to the neck through a series of materials available to me, such as linen, cardboard and iron wire. Inside the circles, I wound irregularly overlapping linen. I wanted to show the mask shape from beginning to end. However, I folded the wings on the neck part by folding paper, representing the wings of the chrysalis that broke the cocoon into a butterfly, The three fixed rings of the mask overlap each other in an “S” shape to express the life cycle of the silkworm from hatching to becoming a butterfly. It represents that silk is overlapped layer by layer like a curtain. Like the growth process of silk spinning, the silkworm spits out all the silk in its body and binds itself to it. One day, it breaks out of the cocoon and turns into a chrysalis. It is also like people who are exhausted and unwilling to show their emotions and hearts to the world. They choose to wrap themselves up layer by layer like silk, which is indistinct, clear and vague, covering their hearts. But silk is also full of vitality, just like a person’s transformation process.