From the fabric of social awareness
Fashion designer and artist shows how climate change inspires her creations, hoping others will become more eco-friendly and follow suit, Cheng Yuezhu reports.
In recent years, she has mainly worked in her Chongqing studio but keeps a close eye on environmental disasters. She even created a landscape piece inspired by her distress about wildfires in Chongqing and Australia.
"Even in my studio, I see changes in the urban environment. Adverse weather causes my plants to wither; it doesn't matter if I water them. I don't travel because I want to avoid the summer heat. I want to use my body to experience and endure the ill effects of climate change," she says.
In addition to working on her art, she also gives lectures at universities, libraries and public welfare organizations. Students studying international environmental preservation from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia also visited her studio on a research trip.
