Shih-Han Chou
Shih-Han is a Taiwanese artist working between the UK and Taiwan. She holds a BA in Fashion Design and an MA in Textile Design from Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). Her practice blends storytelling, pattern drawing, and mixed media, incorporating techniques such as drawing, printing, and pattern cutting to create designs that bring emotion and narrative to life. She explores the intricate connections between imagination and perception, interlacing drawing and fabric to build visual languages inspired by nature. Guided by intuitive, ritualistic movements, her process is deeply personal—serving as a journal that preserves moments through patterns and textiles.
“Self-Generated Phytoncide” is a drawing-based collection that reawakens imagination and transforms it into material form. The works stem from diagrams I drew in 2008, reinterpreted as symbolic flower forms that explore themes of resilience, inner-child wonder, care, and transformation. Through layering fibre, thread, and printed fabrics with drawing and intuitive mark-making, I create soft, surreal compositions that drift between memory and imagination.
Each flower and seed in the collection embodies a story—blooming in reverse, in pairs, or only after decades—mirroring the emotional complexities we carry over time. Drawing inspiration from fairy tales, the work embraces intuition over logic, and ritual over precision. As Philip Pullman observes, fairy tale characters are defined by their essence, not complexity. Likewise, these forms emerge not from analysis, but from feeling.
The collection invites quiet reflection—a return to the soft magic of memory, where textiles become vessels for remembering, feeling, and imagining.
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