April 2025
Ebony, Mahogany, Hemp, Hair From Head of Joyce, Spalted Tamarind, Padauk, Maple, 389 Hours
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Chiang, T. (2019). Exhalation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
The Great Silence
Omphalos
Kimmerer, R. W. (2015). Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
Roy, A. (1997). The God of Small Things. Vintage Canada
Le guin, Ursula. (1985). Always Coming Home. Harper Perennial ed., Harper & Row, 2023.
Kesner, L. (1995). Likeness of No One: (Re)presenting the First Emperor’s Army. College Art Association.
April 2025
Blown Jars, Padauk, Osage Orange, Ebony, Maple, Mahogany
An accumulative collection of residue from sculptural projects...
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Relevant Texts to “(the) Goods ”
Miller, M. (2018). Circe. Little, Brown and Company.
Le guin, Ursula. (1985). Always Coming Home. Harper Perennial ed., Harper & Row, 2023.
Miller, M. (2018). Circe. Little, Brown and Company.
Le guin, Ursula. (1985). Always Coming Home. Harper Perennial ed., Harper & Row, 2023.
December 2024
Ebony, Hemp, Hair from Head of Joyce, 106 hours
Conduit of War Dance
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Chiang, T. (2019). Exhalation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
The Great Silence
Omphalos
Kimmerer, R. W. (2015). Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
Roy, A. (1997). The God of Small Things. Vintage Canada.
November 2024
Ebony, Padauk, Hemp, Glass, Walnut, 115 hours
I see you.
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Roy, A. (1997). The God of Small Things. Vintage Canada.
Palahniuk, C. (2005). Haunted. Vintage.
Powers, R. (2018). The Overstory. W. W. Norton & Company.
Dostoevsky, F. translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. (2021). Notes from Underground. Vintage Classics
Euripides. Medea
Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus
May 2024
Mahogany-obsidian, Ebony, Hemp, Padauk, 81 hours
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Miller, M. (2018). Circe. Little, Brown and Company.
Roy, A. (1997). The God of Small Things. Vintage Canada.
Dostoevsky, F. Frank, J. (1987). Crime and Punishment. Bantam Dell.
Palahniuk, C. (2005). Haunted. Vintage.
About
Bio
Joyce Shi is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ritual and seduction through sculptures made of wood, glass, and stone. She graduated from RISD with a BFA degree in Glass. Her work is informed by her multi-cultural identity, as well as her interest in transformation, craft, and alchemy. She is currently based in Vancouver, BC.Statement
My practice is informed by Ritual, both as a making process and as a topic of exploration. I’ve always been drawn to the miscellaneous objects labeled for ritual use in ancient archaeology, I like to imagine their use. I picture Ritual in its most intense form– a Ceremony, the way my ancestors did them in the Yellow River Valley. I’m drawn to the Performance of Ceremony and how rules seem to bend and distort within its contexts.
Within Ritual, objects no longer focus solely on their functionality: A spear used in warfare becomes a companion in dance; its bronze tip– casted in bronze for durability and efficiency– is replaced by jade, handcarved and sharpened to perfection; its handle, once rough and weathered by combat, now bejeweled in a mosaic of precious stones; yet the spear remains deadlier than ever, fully functional in all its luxury. It still performs war, this beauty of a spear. It still twirls in the hands of its wielder as it would on the battlefield, it cuts through thick plumes of sandalwood smoke as it would cut through flesh. Except in Ritual, no blood is spilled in vain.
Contact
email me: studiojoyceshi@gmail.com
email me: studiojoyceshi@gmail.com
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