poetic plastic by zhuo wang from china

The common plastic, polystyrene, is a industrial material most widely used in the manufacture of industrial products and packages. Artificial, cheap, low quality are the typical reputations of plastic. It is a material invented for machine. People has hardly opportunity to get close to the material during the process of manufacture.
This projet is my experiment of how to treat plastic in an artisanal way with my own hands. To me the plastic is not a cold or a cheap material, but warm, soft, fluid material which is full of tension and vitality. Here the plastic is carved
with regular lines, heated, and then transformed naturally by the weight of the objets which are put in as molds. It also played well with the wood to form a table. The final plastic objets have recorded all the movements of the
transformation and have expressed the precious and unique personnality of plastic.