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Kin Hei Zhao (CSM) Her graduation work (Desire and 100 Apples) manifests a research into the relationship between humans and ceramics. The work focuses on the origin of materials, specifically the most common ones used in our everyday lives. She aims to subvert and redefine the set perception in modern people's mind about what is 'ordinary'. The installation includes 100 clay apples and a sculpture that will grow mushrooms as time passes. The apples create a portrait of the 21st-Century society and 21 real apples hidden inside to hint at some of the social issues that people choose to ignore as they cannot see them. As well as the 'growing' sculpture, which also reveals people's problems with lack of curiosity towards materials. Â
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