Mission 

Egg Spaceship — a time capsule of transformation.

Through art, craft, and storytelling, Egg Spaceship creates objects that carry ideas and intention into everyday life. Each piece—whether handmade or thoughtfully curated—acts as a small vessel of meaning, inviting the person who carries it to also carry a seed of transformation.

Egg Spaceship embraces materials across different values and origins, combining discarded, humble, and precious elements. By doing so, it challenges the hierarchies often imposed by the market and reimagines craft not simply as decoration or commodity, but as a living language of care, creativity, and possibility.

Our mission is also to create spaces where mutual support becomes healing and empowerment. Through accessible objects, workshops, and exhibitions, we aim to open doors for the community—especially welcoming women and girls who may have experienced gender-based violence or who are seeking supportive spaces for creativity and healing.

About the Founder

Orange Li was born in Keelung, Taiwan, and currently lives and works between New York City and Jersey City.

The idea of Egg Spaceship traces back to her childhood. Growing up with her younger sister, they often imagined themselves as astronauts. At the same time, the image of the egg carried another meaning in her life — a symbol of protection and care rooted in the love of her grandparents.

Later, Orange came to see the egg as a vessel carrying the possibility of transformation and healing. Perhaps it is also a quiet coincidence that she was born in Keelung (基隆), a port city once historically called “Chicken Cage” (雞籠), which shares the same pronunciation but different characters.

Orange studied economics and began selling jewelry at a street stall in 2010. Through determination and resilience, the small venture eventually grew into four retail locations between 2010 and 2015. This financial independence allowed her to travel, search for materials and ultimately leave behind an environment of direct gender-based violence she had endured.

In 2015, she sold all of her businesses and moved to the United States to pursue a long-suppressed calling toward art. Starting life again from scratch, she navigated the art world as an outsider artist.

After exhausting her savings, she entered one of the most challenging periods of her life—sleeping on a couch in a basement studio in Brooklyn and working in restaurants while saving leftover food to eat the next day. Yet during this time, she experienced a profound spiritual breakthrough that reshaped her understanding of art, survival, and the unknown forces guiding her life.

During the pandemic, Orange entered the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), where she began shedding old skins and gradually finding her voice behind the veil as an artist.

Today, Orange works between worlds—as an artist, curator, educator, and designer. Her practice explores healing and storytelling, seeking to give voice to hidden and marginalized experiences through herstory while holding a thread of hope that reflects the wonder of nature.

Her work searches for connections between the human and natural worlds in an effort to create a Gesamtkunstwerk (a universal artwork)—a synthesis of knowledge systems, and lived experience into her own evolving aesthetic language.

She has recently begun studying Modern Matriarchal Studies with Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth, whose research has inspired her to explore social systems rooted not in domination, but in care, community, and non-hierarchical values.