Wind and rain have sent Spring to home, flowing snow flakes wait for the coming Spring. It’s time to enjoy the beautiful landscapes from rivers to mountains, athletes to race fields. Lichun traditionally signifies the beginning of spring in East Asian cultures. The exposure of Beijing Winter Olympics sparks new ideas and makes people from all over the world feel delightful. After the Athletes Bing Dwen Dwen have got through an ace goal, a lovely tiger jumps into eyes and greets in front. How fancy the joyful scene is! Inside and outside the show window, tigers on those lucky envelopes, usually called Big Cat in China, is dynamic and playful. Tiger sometimes looks sleepy, sometimes looks funny, sometimes looks like a sofa potato and sometimes looks like a cool magician. All in all, these envelopes are created by Eva and Ge, with many thanks and wishes for the traditional Chinese New Year.
In the sunshine, flowers are blooming, pollens are spreading by the wind, winds are blowing, opening the year of the Tiger smoothly.

Eva is a southern girl who has lived in the north. She has the delicacy of southern girl, also have the generosity of northern girl. When she was young, her parents gave her artistic enlightenment not only in painting and vocal music, but also in traveling, seeing historical buildings and mountains and rivers. She loves life and loves to discover the beauty of things themselves. She studied children's painting at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in kindergarten. She believes that children could always behave themselves frankly and simply while they create an artistic work. Ge

Ge Feng is an illustrator and visual artist, currently working and living in Shanghai. Ge completed her BA in fashion design from Beijing institute of fashion technology,then went to Royal college of art continue her study about visual art. Her work often starts from thinking about the conflict between the individual and the environment , which combines drawing, printmaking and moving images.

Some will see references to Daniel Buren, Dubufet, Sol Lewitt, Christo or to camouflage technic experimented during the first world war named Razzle Dazzle and many other artists. I notice all these similar appearances.
My inspiration is mainly the identification system as the one used during the middle age in Europe where lepers and all marginal was required to wear some red and white stripes elements on their clothes to be identified.

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After the autumn of golden leaves, the New Year of 2022 comes. Among the fallen leaves everywhere, I picked up some gingko leaves like wings and put them in the "Palace Museum Calendar" of Xin Chou Year, hoping to retain the beauty and unforgettable of the past year.
I accidentally found the "Xinhua Art convenience column" in wechat circle of friends. Through this small window, people displayed different treasures, different talents and different fashions on xinhua Road with a long history.
With the consent of "Xinhua Art Convenience bar", I decided to use the autumn color that I wanted to keep - a few gingko leaves, together with several square engraved prints before, to express the good wishes of 2022 "Year of the Tiger" to the people of the past.
There are many auspicious idioms about tigers in China, such as "tiger screams and dragon sings", "like a tiger adding wings", "alive and alive", "crouching tiger hidden dragon", "alive and powerful" and so on. Therefore, they specially engraved tiger seal, calligraphy tiger word seal and Chinese paper cutting of tiger, in order to bring the year of the tiger festival. Gingko biloba leaves specially use different languages to express Chinese New Year greetings to international friends.
The seal inscriptions on ginkgo leaves "Nian An Shou Yi", "Ren Shou Shou", "Shou (Bird dragon)", "Tashi Dele" and "Tian Yu Gu xi" also express good wishes for the Chinese elderly to add longevity and happiness.
Gingko leaves also serve as a foil to the seals of "Suitable for descendants (imitating the Forbidden City seal)", "Year of monkey (second child)" and "Sail", wishing our next generation happiness.
Let's welcome the New Year 2022 together.

This leather jacket belonged to my Grandma. It was manufactured by Shanghai Xinmei garment factory. After the founding of the PRC, to help develop the inland regions, my Grandma and Grandpa moved from Harbin to Lanzhou, an inland city in Northwest China. They brought their newborn baby girl, my mom, along with them. The couple, with many of their comrades, built factories from scratch, worked and lived there for the most of their lives.

The reform and opening in the late 1980s and 1990s brought better quality of life to these hard- working citizens. When they got chance to visit big cities like Shanghai, they made the most of such infrequent opportunities, and brought back souvenirs, such as fancy clothes and novelty products to their families.

This jacket was one of those things Grandpa bought for Grandma during his business trip to Shanghai. This mid-length jacket cost a whole lot of money out of the household expenses. Back in that time, people tend to remember the price of each clothes they bought, sometimes even where and how they bought it. For me, I don’t quite remember how I bought most of my clothes. But this one was an exception. It was a Chinese New Year, I went back to my Grandma’s for holiday. I asked Grandma for this jacket, not because it’s a stylish piece, but rather as a precious item that I’d like to own. Little did I imagine that only a few year later, it became a keepsake of my Grandma.

As I’m turning 40 soon, my sense of identity has been shaking. The parents of my Grandpa and Grandma migrated to Northeast China. Grandpa and Grandma moved to Northwest China to construct the country. Later, my parents left Lanzhou, “jumped on the bandwagon” of doing business in South China and went abroad. As for me, I also chose to leave my family and live by myself in Shanghai. As the ties between me and my family became loosened, I felt confused about who I am, and where i came from.

I thought I had all the time in the world after I graduated from college. However, life withers faster than I thought. I didn’t even had chance to show Grandma the new chapter of my life as an independent adult before she passed away.

That was when I started to trace back the life of my family members. I do whatever I can to get to know and explore what they have experienced. This “Xinmei” leather jacket was originally from Shanghai. It once connected me and my Grandma. Through this work, I hope Grandma, me and this city can somehow get reconnected.