About Us:

 

In 2020, WsOH was founded by a group of designers from Taiwan, the United States and Japan who love arts, retro, design, and distinctive styles. We hope to create an art platform that shares paintings, handmade accessories and retro accessories.

 

關於我們：

        WsOH 是由一群來自台灣、美國和日本熱愛藝術、復古和設計，喜歡與眾不同風格的設計師在2020年美國Cincinnati所創立。期望打造一個藝文平台，分享畫作、手工飾品和復古飾品。

 

Our vision:

 

The full name of WsOH is “Wings of Hope”, which contains the meaning of bringing hope to the impoverished women. We hope that this platform can be like angel wings, bringing new life and hope to the impoverish women. Our founder traveled around the world due to her work. In 2019, she was responsible for the project of the mental health counseling center for female workers in India. She contacted with Indian women of different socioeconomic backgrounds on the daily basis. Many of them suffered from domestic violence, marital problems, and gender inequalities at work.

After the project was completed, our founder returned to Taiwan and the United States to share what she had seen in India; she decided to establish the WsOH brand with friends in the United States and Taiwan to help these Indian women. Therefore, we will donate forty percent of the profit from our painting and designs to Indian local women foundations [Sisters living works]. In addition, we will regularly share articles on our website. After the pandemic is over, we hope to create a workshop for disadvantaged Indian women. Moreover, we also sell the works of Indian designers on this platform.

 

 

我們的願景：

        WsOH 全名 Wings of Hope，希望帶給弱勢婦女希望的意思，期望這個平台像天使的翅膀，可以保護弱勢婦女獲得新生和希望。創辦人由於工作的關係，到處旅行，2019年外派到印度，負責印度女工心理諮詢室的專案計畫，每天接觸到不同階層的印度婦女，許多更是因為家庭暴力、婚姻問題，以及職場上各種性別不平等，過著非常辛苦的生活。

        計畫完成後，回到台灣和美國，分享在印度所見所聞，決定和美國、台灣的朋友成立WsOH品牌來幫助這些印度婦女，所以我們所賣出的畫作與設計品，百分之40%會捐贈給印度婦女，此外網站也會定期分享文章，等疫情過後，期望能成立一個印度弱勢婦女工作室，在這個平台也販售印度設計師的作品。

 

Products we sell:

 

(1) We sell our own designed accessories. The ingredients include crystal, silver, resin, and brass, which are made of American anti-allergic materials and Indian crystals. Our designers love Indian yoga and meditation. They hope that the energy jewelry can bring spiritual help to the customers. Likewise, we will donate twenty percent of sales to the social enterprise projects.

(2) We collect retro accessories from only the United States and Europe. Some of the accessories are the donation from our partners in the United States. The sales from the donated accessories will completely become the fund for the social enterprise.

(3) We also sell paintings by American artists, including acrylic, alcohol ink and watercolor paintings. Again, we will donate 15% of the net income to the impoverished women in India.

 

我們販賣的商品：

(1) 我們將會販賣自己設計的飾品，結合水晶、銀、樹酯、黃銅等來自美國抗敏材料和印度水晶下去製作，我們館內的設計師本身都熱愛印度瑜珈和靜心，期望這些能量飾品能帶給每位消費者靈性上的幫助，其銷售20%會捐贈社會企業計畫中。

(2) 我們會蒐集來自美國的復古飾品來銷售，百分之百來自美國和歐洲的復古飾品，其中販賣的飾品也有來自美國人的愛心捐贈，銷售的收益皆為我們募款社會企業的資金。

(3) 我們會銷售美國藝術家的畫作，有壓克力、酒精水墨和水彩畫作，收益15%會捐贈給印度弱勢婦女。

 

 

Design inspiration of founder:

 

My profession is a therapist. Art therapy is the reason why I started getting touch with arts and design. I slowly began my design career by learning painting. In the process of making psychological paintings with my patients, I fell deeply in love with abstract paintings and emotional paintings. Both styles of painting are in the modern art category.

In modern arts, I am very interested in cubist paintings. I like characters, buildings, and even the deconstruction of the objects. This style of painting allows the objects to become very different from their original forms, which frees the objects from the constraints of external forms without changing the inwardness. This style of painting seems to encourage all objects’ consciousness to develop freely, which makes any fixed appearance can reassemble with one's own point of view. I am fascinated with the geometry. Any object or landscape can become another form with the patchwork of geometry while the essence still exists. It is as if we are in a body, but our consciousness can drift around. Since I am not a person who advocates mainstream ideas, I really enjoy deconstructed paintings because it not only makes my consciousness completely free and innovative, but also breaks the framework, restriction, and present the art in a completely different form.

 

設計靈感：

         我的本業是心理師，會接觸到藝術和設計是因為藝術治療，進而學了繪畫，然後慢慢加入設計的行列。在帶病人做心理畫的過程中，深深地愛上抽象畫和情緒畫，此兩種畫派都歸類於現代藝術。

        在現代藝術中，我對於立體派畫作非常感興趣，我喜歡人物、建築、甚至各種物品被解構，可以離開他們原來的樣子，不受外在形式的拘束，但仍然是自己，此種畫風似乎鼓勵著所有的物件意識都可以自由發展，任何固定的樣貌都可以用自己的觀點重新組裝。我對於幾何更是由衷地著迷，任何物件或風景都可以靠著幾何的拚湊而變成另一個形體，但本質仍然存在。就好比我們雖然在一個制式的肉體裡，但意識卻可以四處飄散。 由於我不是一個崇尚主流思想的人，所以我真的很享受這樣的解構的畫作，可以感受到自己的意識徹底自由，永遠都有新的創意在腦力激發，突破框架和限制，以不同的面貌呈現。

 

The inspiration of creativity for resin jewelry:

 

I like painting flowers very much, just as I am fascinated with cubist paintings. I cannot wait to deconstruct the flowers, so when I create resin flower jewelry, I like to use various geometric shapes to deconstruct the flowers. My inspiration comes from  shapes such as circles, triangles, rhombuses, and trapezoids. In order to create an unusual visual impact, I enjoy making an accessory looks like a flower, but also like a geometry. The flower is not just a flower. You can reorganize and interpret it with your own point of view, and give it your own Meaning. For example: In the Christmas gift series I designed, I used the idea of Cubism to deconstruct the Christmas tree and Christmas red, and put them together into a diamond-shaped design.

 

樹脂飾品的創作靈感：

         我很喜歡繪畫花朵，就如同我對立體派畫作著迷一樣，我迫不及待地想把花朵解構掉，所以我創作樹脂花朵飾品時，我喜歡用各種幾何圖形把花朵解構掉，我創作靈感來自於用圓形、三角形、菱形和梯形等各種幾何拼湊出花朵，讓它看似花朵但又像幾何，產生另類的視覺衝擊，花朵不在只是花朵，你可以用自己的觀點重組和解釋，賦予屬於自己的意涵。例如：在我設計的聖誕禮物系列作品裡，我就是運用立體派的想法，把聖誕樹和聖誕紅解構，拼湊成菱形的設計，製作而成的作品。