Xi Li

My hometown Yunnan is a multi-ethnic integration zone, most of the culture and propaganda here are related to elephants, through the research I found that the local government in order to solve the problem of human-elephant conflict every year to spend a huge amount of money, at the same time, the tourism industry is the main source of the local economy, so I combined this project with my professional printmaking, with elephants themselves produce waste — elephant dung after special treatment and then combined with the Dai non-heritage paper making technology to produce and design a series of postcard jewellery related to the Dai culture. So I combined this project with my professional printmaking and used the waste from the elephants themselves-elephant dung-after special treatment and then combined it with the Dai's non-heritage papermaking to make and design a series of postcard jewellery related to the Dai culture. I hope to use surrealism to design this kind of jewellery to break the traditional way of wearing, to spread the local culture in the form of tourist souvenirs, and to use these proceeds to invest in the protection of elephants in this gratuitous project to reduce the financial pressure on the local government, and I hope that the wearer will have interesting thoughts and interactions with this piece of artwork when they share the beautiful memories of their travels with their close friends and think about how to take down the jewellery on the postcard and how to wear it. I hope this will deepen the memories of the trip and attract more people to come and learn more about the mysterious and unique culture of this place.