88-year-old grandmother in Hangzhou makes artworks using fis

2020/11/26 13:55 GMT

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Recently, a special series of artworks have attracted the attention of many at an art exhibition in Hangzhou city, capital of east China's Zhejiang province. No ordinary paintings, they are made by Gao Siji, a 88-year-old grandmother who lives in the city, using kitchen waste such as fish bones and crab legs.

Coming up with the idea while eating fish, she discovered the shape of the fishbone looks similar to the petal of a chrysanthemum and tried to construct the fish bones to resemble the flower. After washing the fish bones, she made them into a chrysanthemum and showed it to an art teacher she met in a university for the elderly.

In 1992, she made the first one themed on 鈥減lum blossoms, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums,鈥