Family
BECOMING THE POWER
For the final major project,I really want to focus on the thing I care about the most, and relate to me tightly.So that is familY.Starting to think about this theme,I remember the major I learned before——Sociology.So I decided to look back to the textbook before and tried to analyze "Family".
My analysis report for "family"
I went to the exhibition"MUSHROOMS: THE ART, DESIGN AND FUTURE OF FUNGI", Inspired form LAURENCE OWEN's work, I found the connection between family，living in group means everyone single parts are significant，and could be influenced by others. 
"Highly sensitive person"
Gentle power from HSPs
Family can shape a person's personality in different ways.After I did the further research, I found it much interesting in focusing on personality on a person.But something totally different happen on me.I have always lived in a happy family, protected by my parents since childhood, but my personality is not as outgoing and audacious as others who have grown up in same environment. Like my mother always say to me, you are always timid and easily frightened, very susceptible to changes around you, and the actions of others will deeply affect you. I was very confused about this type of personality until I found out from Dr. Elaine Aron that he defined the word "Highly sensitive person (HSP)" in the early 1990s, and I seemed to find belonging.
Passing the test "Are you highly sensitive person?" confirmed that I am a highly sensitive person. By analyzing my options, strong external stimuli such as harsh alarm bells, special textured fabrics, strong flashes, etc. can stimulate my heart and instant changes in action.I want to record that different situations and put myself in these situations to observe my feeling.
Special textured fabrics
Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
The TED talk form Elena Herdieckerhoff gave me lots of ideas to start exploration for this new direction—Sensitive.
I want to use the name of this talk"THE GENTLE POWER OF HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE"as my title.Sensitive people are always be seen as a vulnerable group，but in this project, I want to analyze this group and find the power from them and from me.
By researching the word" Sensitive" in google images directly, I can see the things relate to sensitive are toothache, irritated skin, wilted dandelions, crying people, etc. So I decided to try to visualize these sensitive things.
Reference—Hao‘s work
A person's life must be small and short. We have been asked to obey since we were young, and have been taught to "don't challenge authority". However, such blind obedience is terrible and we must learn to say no. Hao 's works use the chestnut shell, turtle spine, and silver as the main materials to express isolation from the outside world and protect themselves.
Arm knitting
After we completed the first part, the production of arm knitting, my team member and I exchanged the our samples and modified each other's works in our own ways.
How I made sample
I discovered a new way to knit in this sample making. I tried to express the feeling like furry but also fragile and easy to be snagged，so I mixed stocking into my knit. To reflect how sensitive people fragile, I made a lot of ladders in the stocking. And knitting with yarns. The way I knit totally different the normal way, I cut the stocking into 5 pieces as strip shape, but they still connected together，I used one yarn one stocking strip to knit, in this way, they are massy but felt natural.