Onion Is Not Blue, 2024, textile collage with hand stitching emboridery, 30 x 20.5 cm
If patterns can speak, what are they willing to talk about? Could I listen to them? I had an idea about my textile work, Onion Is Not Blue through reading an article about Meissen porcelain’s Blue Onion (Zwiebelmuster). The Blue Onion’s name derives from a misunderstanding of a pattern of pomegranates as onions. The semioticity of the pattern is coded by cultural myth; it exposes a regulation of what you know and do not know. Onions, their name and representation have been performing well for the culture, instead of pomegranates. Even though fruits are not humans or animals, I can’t help but rescue pomegranates; the artworks sometimes can begin to be produced, not as a creation but as a negation, refusal, and re-contextualization. The title of the work used a negative form to reflect it.
– 柘榴 桃 玉葱