Wire Sculptures by Shi Jindian (师进滇)

Chinese artist Shi Jindian create these incredible replicas made of wires.

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“I don’t like hard, heavy materials … I prefer fine and delicate things,” he said.

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For years he looked for “a material that was brand new, completely untraditional”. Finally, he settled on steel wires.

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By trial and error, using tools of his own devising he learned how to crochet the two-dimensional strands into three-dimensional forms. His wire meshes start out as wrappings around some common object. When the mesh is complete, Shi Jindian destroys or extracts the object, leaving only its steel “shadow”.

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Each of the works is accurate to the smallest detail. They took years to make, but he found serenity in the toil.

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