Huayue Pu is an illustrator and book artist. She has a strong passion for
fantasy and detective fiction and always draws inspiration from literature, history, nature and femininity. She enjoys creating images that
are rich elements and narrative-through printmaking, hand-drawn and 3D objects.
Her practice is related to the struggle and confusion of female self-consciousness and is influenced by the literature of Camus and Borges. She often uses fragmented narrative techniques to tell stories related to memories, nostalgia and travel.
Bio
Inspiration
The inspiration for the project is the classic literary image of the saint and the wicked woman mentioned in "The Madwoman in the Attic," which is actually the writer's way of capturing the silent and gentle image of women required by social discipline and the fear that women's true vitality actually brings to men, as well as the poem by the Argentine writer Borges "Borges and I" mentions that "there are actually two of me", both of which raise the discomfort of feeling the conflict between the self and the image of the outside world. I wanted to create the image of a woman who is dealing with this discomfort.
I created a zine series, a personal archive in the form of letters. It is a record of a female "I" who, after running away from home, writes letters to her twin sister, revealing her doubts and determination about her family and self.
Dear.S [issue1]
Dear.S [issue3]
In the end, I made the series look like a courier package to represent "me" sending everything I saw and felt along the way back to my twin sister at home, like two sides of the same coin, where the person who receives the package is both the "S" in the story and the reader.
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