Waste bamboo can be carved. – Zhou Guixin
A piece of bamboo has 10,000 wonderful possibilities in the hands of an artist. Is it possible for a piece of discarded bamboo to be given new value, even beyond the essence of bamboo? A post-70s folk craftsman in Dongyang, with a literacy and creativity, has subverted the world’s traditional impression of bamboo carving with works of waste bamboo △ Zhou Guixin In a soft way to the strong. Bamboo carving . From the subdivision of carving materials, it can be divided into three categories: bamboo carving, bamboo root carving and turning spring carving. Zhou Guixin mainly creates bamboo root carvings, the main objects of which are bamboo roots buried deep in the ground. The root is the hardest part of bamboo, it can break through many obstacles underground, including soil, stone and the root system of other plants. This underground living environment also creates a variety of images of bamboo roots, and the strange-shaped bamboo roots give artists to create Therefore, after mo...