Vacation schedule:

• –Customers/Clients and illustration Creations
• –Promote & curate art therapy exhibition ”Stories of the third hand”
• –Gathering with friends & traveling

Customers/Clients and illustration Creations

Sweet and Sour Riso Print

Inspired by the proverb: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I used the fruit, lime, to complete the illustrated drawing of Sweet and Sour with the accompanying text: When life gives you limes, make Mojito.
It will end up being riso printed in red and green, so I used some overlay effects to give the image a gradient and black.

Some drafts for yoga strap design

Product design was a new challenge for me and I designed illustrations on themes related to nature, the body and strength，which based on my understanding of the people who use yoga straps.

OPPO festival gift box (Details in External Project PDF)

A festive gift box designed for OPPO, including cover packaging and internal product packaging.

Promote & curate art therapy exhibition: “Stories of the third hand”

LINK： Link：https://vland.live/app/Registration?eventId=6328a9dffd3e0528fdc864f2

PREFACE：

The non-stop era seems to leave no time for loss, the dried up water, the disappearing creatures, the distant homes, the embrace of friends, the human hands touching the machine-made objects, adapting, reacting passively. Like numbing the sensory nerves after a stressful event, the overlapping allergic and desensitising reactions, and the psychological trauma of the post-epidemic era.

“The ‘third hand’ is a term derived from art therapist, artist and writer Edith Kramer’s contribution to the practice of art therapy, which is the perception and use of appropriate metaphors to help others through artistic interventions. Whether this hand comes from the guidance of a therapist, the comfort of a book or animal, or grows out of the psychic power of an individual’s life, it acts as a medium in which artistic ability is applied to complete a moment of self-revelation.

The great satisfaction and the psychodynamic ‘expansion of the ego’ that an individual feels when he or she is able to express feelings, wishes, hopes and fantasies in the form of a painting, comes from participating in the creative process itself. We want to embody the process of being healed by art, both in ourselves and in the context of the stories of others, and we are eager to hear the stories behind the creators’ work. We look to create a so-called harmony between people reading the non-verbal communication and rhythms of others.

Through the artists’ work and feedback, I have gained much information beyond my personal experience. Artistic healing in their creations and inspirations encompasses dreams, nature, social situations, philosophy, literature, psychology and architecture. The exchange with the artists and the birth of new thoughts and understandings from the artworks will become part of the autotheory.

“Art is so absent from our time now. The hunger for art therapy is partly the absence of art as a natural element of daily living. We are surrounded by objects that are machine made that don’t tell us anything about the maker, or anything about the…worldview of that person. There is a hunger and really a lack that permeates all our lives that then makes people search for art, or for an experience where they can do a little of that sort of thing—which might not have been necessary at the time when we made our own furniture. If we made a wardrobe, we might paint something on it, or if we embroidered things, or if we made a handle of a pitchfork, it got something of ourselves in the handle. All that is missing today. In part, I believe this absence has given rise to art therapy as a profession” (Edith Kramer in The Legacy of Edith Kramer: A Multifaceted View, edited by Lani Gerity and Susan Ainlay Anand).

The virtual gallery uses Kramer’s concept of healing to create a revelation in art, constructing a fantastically surreal space to listen to a dreamy murmur, a psalm of hope, along with clouds and large hands holding it up.

Gathering with friends & Traveling

Tate modern：MAGDALENA ABAKANOEWICZ

Fruits made Christmas Tree ：）

In the Winter Wonderland I took part in an ice carving workshop and carved a butterfly fairy torso with wings.

Site of research: Scottish National Gallery

Interesting goodies from Edinburgh Castle: Book Fan

Some of written “propositions”

Inspired by the methods and theories of art therapy, to apply autotheory（the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography） to achieve artistic creations of a self-revealing nature，that contains an arrangement of loosely-linked prose poems which Nelson refers to as “propositions”.

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Preliminary thoughts：

Through my studies so far, I want to explore the edge of the material world and the spiritual world or the part where they are connected. For example, some three-dimensional creations, which can act as bearers of spirit, and some visual records, which can interpret and explain the relationship with spirit in terms of material reality.

The medium of feminist artists used —including painting, performance art, and crafts historically considered “women’s work”—to make work aimed at ending sexism and oppression. For me it is also a very symbolic way of presenting the spirituality work which is not so mainstream.

Biography Task

Anran is an illustrator living in China, Hungary and the UK. Her artwork is a mix of philosophy, literature, mysticism, psychology and life aesthetics, combining spiritual perception with artistic creativity to explore the possibilities of influence and connection in business, environment, education and many other fields.

She is a life experiencer who is committed to travelling to more countries than age, an INFJ that hoping to bring material help or spiritual happiness to more people, trying to make the world she lives in into a spiritual forest and be a free roaming butterfly.