# Project Description

Wood bodies-queer in echo

Mengya Li

Summary

Final work

Hi, I am a queer artist from China. My favorate way to draw is using lines, they helped me a lot in building my characters.  Also, my recent preferred material is ceramic and clay.

You are welcome to see my work. (There are more clay work on it↓)

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Hi, I am a queer artist from China. My favorate way to draw is using lines, they helped me a lot ...

College Camberwell College of Arts

Course MA Illustration

Graduation year 2025

This is my printmaking collection.

(In the show, there will also be a few ceramic pieces, dipicting trans or non-binary bodies.)

It tells a story of gender confusion and fluidity, leading to a journey of self-redefinition in the wild — within nature itself. Through this process, the inner divide between "human" and "nature" begins to dissolve. The protagonist comes to understand the rich diversity of gender identities and gradually reclaims a sense of belonging and self-acceptance.

I hope that those who read this story may find some inspiration — perhaps to feel less anxious or lost about their own identity or gender, or perhaps to discover new ways of relating to other parts of the natural world.

Final work

Queer in Echo

This is the cover of my print collection, containing my three favorate pieces which depictiong bodies and the sex spectrium.

This is the inrtoduction page of the book, including one  poem I wrote about the relationship between "me" human and wood.

In this page there are two rows of people stands for the binary of two sexs: female and male.

In the middle a character upsidedown is questioning which position belongs to them, among the crowd.

I hope the image could convey the feeling of being in the womb.

Research and process

Wood of body

Photograph works in epping forest brought me inspirations on the connection of bodies and the wild. broke the binary of huamn and nature.

Wood of body 2

I was inspired from Mayday Rooms and The Feminist Library. I found important theories that supported my works, which are theories relevant to the queer ecology.

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This is my printmaking collection. (In the show, there will also be a few ceramic pieces, dipicting trans or non-binary bodies.)It tells a story of gender confusion and fluidity, leading to a journey of self-redefinition in the wild — within nature itself. Throug...

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