A Stone A Mountain by Jingfeng Fang

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《一石一山》是我在哥德堡大学设计手工学校的硕士毕业设计作品。主题是the natureof cultural dependence on design. 重在探讨怎样自然而然的赋予设计文化的属性。这个项目从文化的三个层次“可触摸”层，“行为”层，“不可触摸”层来寻找自然的本质，而这三者相对应于设计的外观，功能和意义。同时也强调了“我”在设计过程中的意义。

《一石一山》就是在这个构架下的一个例子。文化对我而言就是那个被大山环抱的小山村，我在那边渡过了我的童年，那是一段美好的记忆，远远胜过红牆琉璃瓦，龙图腾对我的印象。我尝试着把当地人的自然观融入到一个收藏盒中，盒子的外型我希望能够给人一种相似而有不相似的感觉，所以我结合了一个普通的四边形盒子和一个我奶奶做饭用的木製锅盖，希望是新的但是又保有了老的感觉。盒子储藏方式灵感也是来自我的奶奶，她喜欢把东西藏在大米桶里，一是因为我们那边比较潮湿，所以用来乾燥，二是我奶奶觉得把东西藏在米桶里是最安全的，没人会去注意那地方。小时候我就很喜欢把手插入米堆中，让米粒从指尖滑过。我希望人们可以快乐的去挖掘储藏的方式，可以埋起来，也可露出来。石头的目的是想给盒子带来情感上，氛围上的一个基调。我用石头来代表心中的大山，用陶瓷浆灌模的方式完成石头的製作，运用了水的流动性，以至于形成不同纹理，使得每块都是与众不同。

 

I was born in a small village of southeast China. The village is a quite isolated place, surrounded by three high mountains and close to nature. People have a very simple, casual, poetic and tranquil life there. My mother gave me my first name Jingfeng 「靜峰」In Chinese it means peaceful mountains. She thought my life ought to be full of poetry, tenderness, generosity and love. I expected my design should have some features of my local culture’s philosophy – Flow with nature, to use material in a natural way with feelings of care and love for the object. By approaching nature as a partner in a relationship, you can make peoples hearts closer to their home and family.

I created a memory box for daily use. The box is a hybrid of a normal squared box and a Chinese wooden lid from my grandmother’s kitchen. I made the knob longer in order to create a symbolic form to give people an unfamiliar familiar feeling, as well as giving people an affordance to open the box without a thought. The material is beech and I use a CNC milling machine to cut the shape, because I intended to give a new definition of the modern craft. It is new but without forgetting old.

The usage of rice as a method for storage, is inspired from my grandmother. She loved to keep her precious thing into a big pile of rice, because she thought it was the safest place at home to keep things. I took her idea to use rice for storage into my project. There is no rule of how to keep your memory objects. I expect that people could explore the way of storage by themselves. They could leave their objects on the surface of the rice, or bury objects under the rice to hide their secrets or private memory. It turns out to be an experimental experience of storage.

The stone created a tranquil and poetic atmosphere. I set the mountain as a symbol of my local culture, which also was proved from traditional Chinese scholars perspective. They were interested in collecting stones to express meaning and place emotion on stones, because they thought stones represented the mountain in their heart. They brought these mountains into their studios as a “ Spirit stone” for meditation and contemplation. The stones’ dramatic form and wondrous colors evoke sensitive emotions. I use porcelain to make the stone, due to its hard but at same time fragile qualities. During the process I worked with the flow of porcelain liquid, when they were in the plaster molds. Therefore every piece of stone is born in a natural way and everyone looks unique.

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