Recent Glass Works

Last week, when i doing tutorial with Mr. David, he suspiciously asked me why i swift my attention from textile to glass, but actually, this conversation has already occurred at last tutorial. Therefore i realize that people may not comprehend why am i working with glass. Actually, the choice of this material is no coineidence, there're 3 reasons i must elaborate to you!

1) from last Module, i made textile jewellery but it ends up to tacky crafts


2) Working experience in China Contemporary Glass Museum, I spend 10 hours a day, 5 days a week company with crystal glass art work.


3) My merchant parents, they own a glass factory producing cars front light. I admire their indomitable and spunky spirit.

raw wood ash

used wood ash

Spontaneity, from the first minute I saw molten glass it became my passion. It looked so hot, dangerous, technical and a real challenge. I love using glass and the process of working with hot glass, it gives me a lot of feed back and it doesn't always do exactly what you want, it means, sometimes I got to make one piece 4 to 5 time before I get it right. Sometime I get it completely wrong and it hits in the furnace or breaks. But I like the agility the material gives me. It's a medium intuitive for me.

ceramics in the glass

Nevertheless Mr. David wittily encouraged me to use this material not just technically but also conceptually, i start to experiment with ceramics and even wood ashes, “conflicts,” “organic,” “delicacy,” and “romantic” are some of the implications and themes that inform my works and where i exploit a more conceptual approach.

Challenge:

Texture, surface, abstraction, memory and place they all elements of we have to think about. Material exploration and technical problem solving is an initial part of explaining my design orientation. To make it my own way is to make personal style aesthetic decision making process and potential for future development. Those pictures document the process of how I making a brooch. Mix and Match, feel the visual impact, what makes this combination visually harmonious.

To turn my emotional abstraction to actual work is the charm of my mission. To select, balance and decrease & add the relationship between figurative work and abstraction, so that to improve the work visually and conceptually synchronous

Talk about the beauty of a piece of art, more and more people tend to agree that, intelligence and spirit which inside the design of jewellery are way more valuable than the actual price of it, no matter it is a silver necklace or a diamond ring. Therefore it is this passion and urges to create something and express the joy of design. There is much more than to just putting colours or shapes together. Professor Jivan once told me: Contemporary jewellery comes from great knowledge and experience of art allied to hard work.

In addition, the evolution of the work is something that interests me greatly and as part of its continuing cycle which I learned from a lot. When I was studying on my MA I wanted to understand why I was drawn to working with these materials. Apart from their tactile and aesthetic qualities, it was the connection that I feel to my study background which is costume design (Costume design background= large knowledge technique of fabric and textile, and different dressing styles from kaleidoscopic cultures) and in my family we have a tradition that girls should inherit the skill from the female member like weaving and knitting. So, what is my strong point in design? This is the characteristics of my every little pieces.

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