After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her personal struggle with speaking her mind.

Recently on display at Dutch Design Week, Chen's brass Tear Gun fires water collected as she cries.

Chen was born in Taiwan, where she was brought up with a strong sense of authority and taught that disagreeing with teachers was rude.

Because of this, she struggled to question her tutors when she came to the Netherlands to study for her masters degree – something Design Academy Eindhoven often encourages.

Tear gun by Yi Fei Chen
"The difficulties living as a foreigner in another country lead to high pressures in the study environment," she said. "Those pressures had been building for 18 months before finally reaching a crisis point during one of my midterm presentations."

During the presentation, Chen was asked by Read more Tear Gun.