Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Glass / Contemporary Craft
My location: London, United Kingdom
First Name: Avis
Last Name: Dou
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Ceramics & Glass MA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Glass / Contemporary Craft
My Location: London, United Kingdom
Taking the mushroom fungus in nature as a reference, the glass mycelium grows and spreads on the grass and the old bicycle, occupying and expanding its own territory, creating a great contrast with the surrounding environment. The use of glass as a medium demonstrates the lushness of life and erosion. Nature's decomposers turn the remains of animals and plants into dust and return them to the cycle of life. Often, however, man-made industrial materials are absent from this process, unable to be properly housed and reused, achieving a worthless demise. Abandoned bicycles can be found everywhere in the campus, and they are discarded and forgotten with the departure of their owners. Therefore, I chose the bicycle as a symbol, and used the glass material, which is also an artificial product, to cover it, showing a kind of false disintegration and burial, and restoring the inevitable process of the natural environment to the industrial product, embodying a kind of introspection and reflection on the collision of industry and nature.