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This zine is created with colloboration of Canon The effort of this project was a collaboration between Canon and The student Chia Yuan Hong’s college graduation project under the under Canon’s Corporate Social Responsibility.
Traditional. The Trades Of The Past - Traditional Trades “长江后浪 推前浪” “The waves behind drive on those before” The new generation replaces the old. As the traditional trades nowadays are being neglected by the new generation, the traditional trades are in crisis. This project seeks to create documentary photography of those historical, traditional, and vanishing trades. This project, Photoshoot the craftsman who spends their whole life and focus, guarding on the traditional Trades.
Taoist Paper Art The Taoist paper art generally perceived as a form of offering in festive celebrations and funerals. It is believed to be a substitute for living offerings in sacrifice. Taoist paper art plays an important role in Chinese culture. Despite being one of the most important kinds of decorations in villages, it also serves as an important medium of communication between humans and gods in different forms. The Taoist paper art is mostly for festive or funeral decoration and offerings.
Use Flour And Rice To Stick Bamboo and colored paper are used to prepare paper art. The manufacturing process of different offerings are similar, but for large and complex paper art, the production process is more time-consuming and more complicated.​ Generally, to create a paper art, the first step is to draft the appearance on a graph. Then, the paper is cut and torn into the desired shape. A form for support made by bamboo is needed on which to glue the colored paper. It is possible to alter the shape of paper art to the desired form.
Practice Makes Perfect An artwork like this only takes only 2 days to finish.​ This required practicing and experiences of the craftsmen.
Lack Of Successors “Nowadays, most of the teenagers are lack of passion and craftsmanship,I got few students before, but they only rushing on start their own business even they haven’t learned enough from me”.
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