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An artist from China showcased their creativity through the art of fishbones fragments. Since more than two decades ago, an artist from the province of Fujian, China, Hanbing Li produce stunning artwork from discarded fishbones. Hanbing Li inspiration from traditional Chinese calligraphy, the fifty one year old man was using a variety of fishbones to disclose various patterns and landscapes.
Once Hanbing Li graduated, majoring in arts and crafts at a university in China in 1989, he began experimenting with a fishbones in his work. "Since childhood I've felt the bones of fish has a beautiful shape and it gives a lot of inspiration to me. If examined for a long, the shaped like ancient calligraphy brush strokes. Quite primitive and elegant,

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