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Reconciling_A Mountain Plate

I designed a "mountain plate", which is both a sculpture and a functional plate. Inspiration comes from the poem my mother taught me to memorize when I was a child "food is as important and good as beautiful as utensils."

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When I was a child, I would take us to draw landscape paintings on plates.

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After arriving in the United States, I found that the food culture in the United States is completely different from that in China: all food is served on one plate per person, and there is no joy in sharing food with everyone.

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Later, I did research and found that the most common food shared by Americans is desserts - so I made a plate of Chinese landscape painting culture, and some sculptures mixed with various Chinese and American desserts.

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I hope this set of sculptures can be put in front of everyone to initiate conversation about two different cultures, while accepting their own cultural backgrounds.

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jiahe hua