Ma Yanxia has always been keen on exploring and practicing fiber art, constantly observing and analyzing soft materials. She can turn the materials into something new and creative, express her inner emotions through her thoughts. "Commensalism" is one of Ma Yanxia's representative works. The material is soft but tenacity, gentle but shiny, slender but heavier. The material is woven and twisted to create different shapes, showing natural agility. Matter and shadow coexist and create harmony.
This work was born in the years when the new crown virus was raging. Ma Yanxia, together with her family, had no choice but to stay at home. Their hearts were very depressed, tangled, and depressed. The artist encountered the metal wire by chance. The material is thin and soft, and the metal wire changes its appearance beautifully. That is fear hidden in brilliance, haze hidden in splendor, and the form of accumulation. The things that are spread from small to large warn of the virus that cannot be underestimated, the disaster and pain brought to humankind. This work presents reality and the vent of emotions, gentle material language, soft materials, traditional handicrafts, are like medicine, healing the wounds caused by viruses, depicting MA Yanxia's deep respect for nature and life. There are advocacy and resistance to the destruction of nature. Therefore, the artists incorporate so many emotions into the twisted, woven, and transformed fiber products, expressing emotions through weaving and painting the inner world with color. Undoubtedly, fiber art sublimated the material medium.