I  would identify myself as a craftsperson, maker, coder, and storyteller. I enjoy making things by hands. It is like a process of meditation for me. When I am making something, I can totally immerse myself in the work. Coding is another activity that makes me involved in it. It is painful but fun for me. I once thought about giving up coding to just focus on design. Before I pay my tuition deposit to a completely design major, I figured that coding is a part that I can’t throw away. It brought me tough time but excitement as well. I really enjoy it. I also like stories, especially fairy tales, but I am not a writer. I prefer to featuring stories in various, innovative ways. I would like to incorporate the stuff I like, such as handicraft and programming, into stories, and represent stories from new perspectives. It could be a game, an installation, a toy, an experience, etc. 

My favorite wool is paper. The potential of paper is infinite. A plat paper can be made into a 3D world. It can be transformed into almost everything you want. From my childhood, without other tools, I can spend a whole day on a piece of paper. I used to be more familiar to paper folding. Then after I touched more techniques of paper engineer, like pop up designs, I entered a now world of paper. What’s more, there are tons of different kinds of paper. They have various attributions. With paper, you really can make your ideas go crazy.

For this week, I tried out a new craft- embroidery. I just worked on simple sewing before. When mentioning embroidery, a scene, in which young girls in olden days embroidered in elegant manor houses, comes to my mind. Then I chose to try this. During this process, I try 4 different kinds of stitches, namely split stitch, stem stitch, satin stitch, and chain stitch. It’s not as difficult as I imagined. All it needs is patience. When I stitched from scratch and witnessed a pattern coming into being, I was so happy and became more concentrated on it. The most frustrating part was that sometimes the front side was nice and smooth while the backside was a mess- threads are tangled. I found that this was because the thread is too long for I did not want to repeat threading a needle. Because of my laziness, I spent extra time on the tangled thread and the back sides were still not nice. So maybe sometimes, we have to do things step by step, otherwise shortcuts might cost more. For others who would like to embroider, I figure that the length of threads should be proper, and remember to pay attention to the back sides as well.