Chen Yingze, manager of NANZUOKI brand, was born in August 1990 in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in 2013, majoring in jewelry design and metal crafts. He now lives in Jingdezhen and is engaged in design and artistic creation.

NANZUOKI Metal Art Studio was co-founded by Chen Yingze and Cao Hao in Nanjing on November 1, 2013, and has been in Jingdezhen since 2015. "NAN" is the aesthetic appreciation and fate of Chinese characters; "ZUO" is the instinct and creativity of craftsmen; "KI" is the perfect presentation of products. Drawing artistic and cultural accomplishments from tradition, it observes the people, events, objects and scenery around it, combining with personal aesthetics, and then is made after thinking. With several hammers to do some experiments on texture innovation and techniques, we summed up the techniques of "The Method of Hammering the Texture like Painting Brushwork", "The Method of Hammering the Texture with Large and Small Hammers Alternately", "The Method of Hammering Through and Welding the Hole from Inside" and so on. Repeated percussion echoes, exchanges the advancement of craftsmanship with time, and the confluence of ideas and craftsmanship gradually forms the current style. NANZUOKI, persistently pursues art language for handcrafts creation, regardless of any established principles of anywhere or anytime, with the ultimate aim of creating something meaningful out of metals.

year：2016

material：Sterling Silver

size：L 14cm * W 12.5cm * H 17.5cm

Inspired by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang's "Nine Peaks and Snow Picture", "Overlapping Peaks" and "Clarity After Snow" are two representative works defining the method of hammering the texture like painting brushwork. With the logic of image aesthetics, without forging specific patterns, the hammer repeatedly knocks the body of the pot, shaping the outline and shade of the mountains with the weight of strength and the depth of rhythm, and laying out the gravel and gravel in the mountains with hammer patterns. One black and one white, "Overlapping Peaks" is the peaks standing high in the night, "Clarity After Snow" is like the clean desolation after the snow cover.