Wooden-spoon artisan Fu Jingchen and spoon-carving instructor Cheng Ziyi use carving knives to etch strangers’ stories into the grain: a star spoon for a mother with cancer, a tactile spoon for a child with hearing loss, a gratitude spoon for a forest ranger after thirty years of service... These objects connect people across different circumstances through kindness, making every carved line a starlight that brightens someone’s world and embodying the healing power of “love that is never spoken, yet grows like the rings of a tree.”
