Cheap Lab

Item-171, 2015

iron, brass, wire, bird mummification

27 × 14 × 8 cm

Made from a dead bird found in illegal clap net.   

Item-42, 2014

iron, brass, feathers

40 × 25 × 5 cm

a complete set of feathers on a dead crow’s wing

Item-39, 2014

iron, brass, quartz

10 × 8 × 6 cm

A red quartz found in mountain Emei

Item-40,41, 2014

iron, brass, bismuth

2.5 x 2 x 2 cm/ 4 × 2 × 2 cm

Crystalized from chemical experiment scrap, an experiment to test metal crystallization on natural crystal.

Item-37, 2014

iron, brass, wood

40 × 20 × 15 cm

The Item-37 is a woodcarving that I made for a nightmare, which latterly came true.

Item-148/149, 2016

iron, brass

φ25 cm/ 40 × 30 × 25 cm

The No.148: a thorn crown made of nails and wire.

The No.149: skull inside a sculpture, the studio of the artist was burnt down in a fire this year. The barbed wire is also found in the relic, I made a thorn crown for it.

Item-54, 2015

iron, brass, feathers, bones

25 × 10 × 10 cm

A kind of bird mentioned in Chinese ancient poem, found in Sichuan, road kill.

Item-245, 2016

iron chains, brass, bones, jar

38 × 18 × 20 cm

Bones found in a rusted ancient stone coffin, the spine is hiding inside the old jar, which is found in an abandoned village (the republic of China) 

Item-104, 2014（accomplished in 2015）

iron, brass, bones

65 × 40 × 18 cm

Mahimahi is my favorite fish.

Item-201, 2016

iron, brass, golf ball

65 × 8 × 6.5 cm

In Beijing, both of rich and poor live in the outer ring of city, they share the same environment. There is a golf course beside the slum, some one used to live in this rust, they made the abandoned golf ball as a hanging object of lamb cord. It’s a interesting phenomenon.