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Formal / Couture 31 portfolio items

The fruit of my labour

Qiao-Ying Chen

Edinburgh College of Art

This project reflects on navigating my cultural identity through a diasporic lens, examining the relationship between presence and absence and how the remnants of a form can become the form itself. The concept draws from the Greek mythological figure, Tantalus, paralleling his physical strain with visual portrayals of rural agricultural practice to represent a cycle of labour and desire through the act of cultivation.

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