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Lobsters are more than widely enjoyed delicacy of high economic value in the eyes of artist Yi Ying Lu. She has developed a series of artworks made with lobster shells, in which she explores all the possibilities and impossibilities of this unconventional material. Strange and with a touch of fantasy, her works are conceived out of the box and thus a breakthrough of people's stereotypical association of a lobster.Lu applies a special cleaning method to the shells before she turns them into a material for weaving. By deconstructing the exoskeleton and reshaping it from the joints, she transforms lobster shells into artworks that resemble flowers or thin paper. Sometimes she incorporates twisted threads and cords onto her shell sculptures, bringing forth an imagery that is simultaneously soft and powerful.

Besides nutrition and palatable enjoyment, the artist encourages the audience to rethink the possibility of an ingredient. It can well serve as a creative material that showcases a juxtaposition of the soft and the powerful, opening up our imagination about what seems to have been already defined.