Yolanda Zheng (China)
YOLANDA ZHENG
Biography:
As a Jewelry Designer, my works mostly originated from personal experiences and feelings with which I hope to communicate with viewers and wearers for further thinking and resonance. In this era where people experience perpetual changes and farewell, our life moments get intertwined with others’ and our existence becomes our and their memories. This caused me to find my own expression through my jewelry design in terms of phenomenon, vision, image, and theories to seek the most popular feelings and memory.I prefer to set my personal experiences and feelings as starting point, and which gets developed further out of my understanding of the world to echo with others. As our society consists of people that each of them is a unique individual, I hold fast to the idea that my experience is not alone and is able to resonate with people if given proper expression in design.
For example, in the project THE SMELL, I translated my memories into specific smells that attached to my love for my hometown. These odors then become the media that the viewers can interact with to recall their memories with their beloved people. Different viewers generate varied understanding and interpretation out of their unique experience, the smells and feelings are hence got widely enriched.
In my work, I hope to embrace the chaos, the energy, the feeling of being alive by capturing those special elements, and to share my positive attitude with people by expressing the light in my heart.
Collection Concept:
Odors always remind me of certain scenarios. It brings me back to the deepest of my memories and feelings. According to my collected questionnaire, most people agree that odor works like a trigger point for us to remember moments and feelings that we thought we have forgotten.
This work consists of a set of tableware made of spices, which is an attempt of the boundary of artwork’s functionality and possibility. User experience survey is followed. Each person gives a very distinct and personal response to their diversified feelings and memories.
Gold plated brass
Gold plated brass
Gold plated brass
Gold plated brass