Hi, I am an Ugllei

Hi, I am an Ugllei

Hi, I am an Ugllei

Have you been treated unfairly due to your imperfections? Your imperfect appearance, your imperfect figure, your imperfect gender, your imperfect age, or any other subjective imperfection?

Then welcome to “Hi, I am an Ugllei”. Ugllei is a new name of ugly food and Lei (my name, in case you forgot). Just like human beings, the vegetable society obeys the same rules and most of the ugly produce ends up unwanted.

To challenge the perfect standard of aesthetics, I re-evaluated the imperfections in my project. I brought the ugly food back to life as anthropomorphic cartoon characters renamed “Uglleis”. I combined knitting samples and other mixed media techniques to make the physical sculptures, also adding my personal experiences to complete the characters’ stories, presenting them as animations.

Ugllei is to celebrate the ugliness of life, to brace courage for accepting a new beauty. Thank you for joining my journey.

Knitted ugly carrot size: 23cm*11cm*5cm;
Knitted ugly melons sizes: 20cm*8cm*4cm, 22cm*10cm*7cm, 33cm*10cm*5cm;
Kitted ugly avocado size: 8cm*6cm*5cm
Ugllei animation size: 00:04:07

https://youtu.be/-VyPwB4IHbs

https://www.instagram.com/ugllei.studio/