Siqi Liu

About

Siqi Liu is a print and mixed-media designer who focuses on exploring different forms of

print and expanding the medium and space in which print exists.

Light, wind and time are constantly passing, the new and the old are alternately balanced, and objects that once carried unique memories and meanings, both physical and spiritual, are constantly changing. The stories and memories brought by light are recorded in the works, the memories carried by the objects are explored through textiles, and the elements of the old remembered objects are reproduced through contemporary material techniques.

The output works start from personal emotions and memories, to capture and pick up those objects that used to bring me a sense of warmth and security, and then create a series of textiles. To preserve memory and security in the current space, and to find identity in the ever-changing environment.

I use Chinese ink to depict the shadows of the trees and the light swaying by the window. I use teal and blue, two colours of stained glass commonly found in Chinese architecture in the 80s, to simulate the effect of light and shadow reflected by the pattern on the glass, and the light and shadow of the indoors and the outdoors are intertwined, and I merge them through the blue and teal glass as if they were two different layers, and I use monoprints to capture the moment. I chose the monoprint technique, painting with water-based pigments on a silk screen, like watercolour, the colours blend with each other and swirl, creating a mottled flow of colours. I blurred the figurative flowers and trees, as if they were swaying by the window, and as if they were my mottled memories.

Technically I want to extend the form of printing, and try to use the printing technology in more fields, so I tried some non-textile printing. Wood is the most important thing that accompanies the memory of my grandfather and me since we were young, so I took wood as a carrier to carry my memory, and continued the wood printing into this structure and geometric overlapping structure, to express the light and shadow and pattern falling onto the lattice window and the scene by the window, and to reproduce the printed wood furniture at that time with handcraft technology, as a continuation of my memories.