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Between Order and Wild

JIASHI LI (Silvan)

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I’m an illustration student with a background in Chinese painting. I enjoy exploring the emotional textures of colour and line. Through drawing and printmaking, I reflect on the quiet human tenderness found within nature.

I’m an illustration student with a background in Chinese painting. I enjoy exploring the emotiona...

My major project is based on the site of Brompton Cemetery in London, which is a Victoria-era cemetery. I mainly focused on the symbolism and spatial presence of plants in this space. Through observation, I collected sketches, notes, and photographs, then used mapping and reorganizing methods to reflect on the contrast between human-designed areas and naturally grown areas. I intend to use a nonhuman perspective to explore how plants beyond being memorials, gently reclaim space in ecological ways. Ultimately, I aim to poetically present plants as healers in this place, reshaping traditional notions of death as a purely sorrowful subject. 

Final work

  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
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  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.
  • A series of monotype and monoprint showing a contrast between carefully arranged garden plants and growing wildflowers.

Research and process

  • mapping
  • It includes re-edited sketches and reflective notes that trace how my research focus gradually unfolded through walking, seeing, and drawing.

Unit 2-Work in progress

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Between Order and Wild

My major project is based on the site of Brompton Cemetery in London, which is a Victoria-era cemetery. I mainly focused on the symbolism and spatial presence of plants in this space. Through observation, I collected sketches, notes, and photographs, then used mappin...

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