Portfolio

Li Anqi’s Portfolio Application for Jewelry+Metalsmithing, MA, RISD

Email: angelleecopy@gmail.com Cell Phone: +86 15101160746 Address: No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan Jie, Chao Yang District, Beijing, P. R. China Post Code: 100102

My works mainly follow two clues: renounce the world and embrace the world. Honestly, I often think about my attitude to the mundane world.

Renounce the World Jewelry gives me a sense of belonging. I can escape from the mundane world for a while, feeling free and safe when I create them, without thinking about practical issues, such as wealth, ambition, personal relationships, etc. Besides, I am influenced by Buddhism and oriental philosophy to a some extent, which advocate that people should have enough time to introspect themselves and coordinate the relationship between themselves and the world.

Embrace the World Some of courses I attended had collaborations with jewelry companies, and tutors would require us to create jewelry for

RENOUNCE THE WORLD | EMBRACE THE WORLD

a virtual commercial environment. However, I did not satisfy with the current products because I hope my work could be products and beyond products. Thus, I made Key to and Halo finally. I call it “period of embrace�. I have courage to interact with the world, after I had my values of the world and confirm my attitude to it. I want to embrace it and tell it about my opinion.

Both of these two attitudes inspire me to create. I think they are compatible, instead of two sides of a coin.

CONTENTS

Period of Renouncement 2

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Period of Embrace MOOR

PICK UP

Individual Work

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KEY TO

Individual Work

Tutor: Zhang Shaofei

Tutors: Teng Fei & Liu Zhizhi

Date: December of 2009-January of 2010

Date: February of 2011-April of 2011

Type: Academic

Type: Academic

Individual Work

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YUE FOR QEELIN

Individual Work

Tutors: Teng Fei & Zhang Fan

Tutor: Zhang Shaofei

Date: October of 2010-December of 2010

Date: March of 2010-April of 2010

Type: Academic

Type: Academic

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ORIENTAL LUXURY

Individual Work Tutor: Yan Rui Date: April of 2011-May of 2011 Type: Academic

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OTHER WORKS FROM 2008-2011

Individual Work Type: Academic

Project Description The main purpose of the course aims at creating a jewelry brand, with specific theme, style, target customers, etc.

At the beginning of the project, we chose a film or literature to study. What I chose was the film named April Story, which mainly described how a girl became accustomed to her college life in Tokyo and grew up lonely but joyfully. Associating with my own experience, I decided to create a series of brooches for floating people who study or working in Beijing without a booklet of registered permanent residence. We call them “BeiPiao�.

It means drifter.

MOOR Individual Work Tutor: Shaofei Zhang Date: December of 2009-January of 2010 Type: Academic

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EXPERIMENTS FOR MOOR

KEY WORDS

Following the feeling above, I collected pieces of bark, twigs and withered fruits to create.

Weather in spring

These natural pieces stay on our body for a period of

Lonely

time, which can be several days or couple of mouths,

Looking for consolation

then they drift away.

Peaceful

Unlike traditional jewelry, they would not keep stable.

Plain

They may be worn down and disappear. Drifters in

Mixture of warmth and cool

Beijing are the same, they work in Beijing for several years without a home, and most of their future are unknown.

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Ring: Moor I Resin 1.8×7×2.2cm

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Ring: Moor II Resin, cobblestones 1.8×7×2.5cm

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EXPERIMENTS FOR MOOR Materials involved: bark, twig, cotton pad, woolen cloth, silver.

Want: warm (like quilt), wrapping, keeping.

Not want: metal.

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Brocch: Moor IV Bark, woolen cloth, magnet 4×8.3×0.5cm

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Brooch: Moor V Bark, woolen cloth, magnet 3.8×6×1.5cm

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Standard Colours for Moor

C=7 M=21 Y =55 K=0

C=50 M=62 Y =100 K=0

Sub Colours for Moor

Brocch: Moor VI Bark, woolen cloth, copper 2.8×4×1.5cm 12

C=42 M=14 Y =31 K=0

C=50 M=48 Y =36 K=0

C=49 M=49 Y =36 K=0

C=41 M=13 Y =29 K=0

C=20 M=24 Y =31 K=0

C=19 M=15 Y =49 K=0

C=9 M=11 Y =23 K=0

C=20 M=24 Y =31 K=0

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Drafts

Proportion of Logo

Colour and Brightness Standard of Logo

Area Forbidden to Sign in

Target Customers

Age: 20-35,mainly between 24 and 30 Income: RMB 3000 per month and above, mainly between 5000 and 20000 Occupation: white-collar workers undergraduates art-lovers Status Localization: floating people Hobbies: reading, strolling Venues: bookshop, cafe, gallery, musuem, opera C=20 M=24 Y =31 K=0

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C=31 M=24 Y =37 K=0

C=100 M=100 Y =100 K =100

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Project Description At the beginning of the course, everyone chose an artist to study, including his/her life story, art works, etc. We also imitated some of their art works, basing on our understanding of the artist. After two-week discussion and games, we summed up key words of our comprehension to the artists or our feeling. By this way, we got a rough description of jewelry we wanted to create as well. Besides, we also had five questions to think during the course.

What is art?

What is philosophy?

What is jewelry?

What kind of jewelry are the good ones?

What kind of jewelry do you want to create?

PICK UP Individual Work Tutors: Teng Fei & Zhang Fan Date: October of 2010-December of 2010 Type: Academic

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

ANALYSIS OF PAUL GAUGUIN Villain

Abandoning his family Promiscuity Being unruly Being pretentious

The moon and six pence written by W. Somerset Maugham inspired me. Thus, I studied Paul Gauguin. He renounced the modern civilization and classical culture to pursue his artistic career and primitive lifestyle.

Devotee’s temperament

Having a soul which cannot compromise with anyone (Eyes of figures in his paintings)

Having his faith for art (Struggle, clash, rebirth)

Having an ultimate proposition (Where do we come from?

What are we?

Where are we going?)

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I drew every day during the course, and it occurred me of the sentence: sketch is an artist ‘s diary. Therefore, I created my jewelry as a series of small paintings, recording my struggle, desire, and realization. Just like a traveler, she picks up what she finds and what she learns during the trip.

KEY WORDS - Clash

· Struggle in mind

· Cold, sharp, merciless, hostility, metal, impetuous

- Primitive

· The primitive and inherented desire

· Bare, rough, natural, punchy, sex

- Honest

· Being honest to oneself,to the inside one

· Look into the mirror, gazing at yourself

- Regain and rebirth

· After being confused and unsatisfied with the

· Realize the truth,the owl flies off the tree at

reality, going through the conflicts, desires

mid-night

and rebirth, one can regain the knowledge of good and evil, then to be more perfect.

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Don’t speak.

Brooch: Mute Silver, copper, porcelain 4.2×5×1.3cm

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Don’t speak.

Mute Reverse 24

A fish never speaks.

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"We are gonna go to the Great Wall Hotel.

He only deserves to McDonald’s."

Brooch: Irritation Silver, copper, paper, canvas, thread, watercolour, handwriting 4.5×3.5×2.5cm; 4×6.5×0.8cm

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Brooch: Homesickness Silver, copper, bark, canvas, watercolour 6.5×6.4×1.7cm

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Brooch: Disable Silver, copper, canvas, acrylic paint 4.5×4.2×0.5cm

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Object: Absent-minded Silver, paper, acrylic, pencil drawing 3.7×5.4×0.4cm

Brooch: I am not the ear for these mouths.

Silver, copper, canvas, acrylic paint, polyurethane 5.9×5.7×0.7cm It records an artist’s distraction.

I am not the mouth for these ears.

It can be a mistake. It can be art.

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Pendant: Jail Brass, copper, photograph 5.5×4×1cm

Brooch: The White Sea Silver, copper, canvas, watercolour, thread, coral, acrylic 7.2×4.7×0.7cm When I got the piece of white coral, it occurred to me a stranger’s death on the beach in my hometown. He wanted to rescue his daughter who was involved onto the strong waves, but both of them were drowned. I tried to do CPR on him with my friend, but it was

I shaved my head on 6th November 2010. They asked me if I wanted to be a Buddhist non. It was difficult to give a clear answer.

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too late. I still remember the white foam out of his mouth.

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Death is similar to sleep. One keeps working all day long, so he/she needs a bed to lie down. Death gives humans a chance to have a rest. For other still living people, they also have a chance to make up and resume their lives. One day when I woke up, I found myself rebirth. I have departured from this suffering shore to reach the other shore of nirvana, regaining the knowledge of good and evil.

Now, when I write down these words, I realize that one can have thousands of times to rebirth during one’s short life.

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Necklace: Bed Felt, copper, beads 13Ă—7.8Ă—4.5cm 35

Untitled

DISPLAY There was a bridge on the fifth floor in the School of Design. I planned to display Pick up there. When someone picks up the realization of life, they tend to rebirth. I would like to compare this process to “Du” in Buddhism. One can depart Tahiti was only a corner located two hundred meters away from you

from this suffering shore of transmigration and reach the other shore of nirvana.

When they said, you travelled thousands of miles there

Someone used to tell me about the universe In case I thought, it was flat They called it science

Someone used to tell me about contentment with life In case I escaped They called it fate Looking forward But looking forward to nothing

When I meet you It isn’t you It isn’t me No another time No another chance

- What is jewelry?

It is not part of body, but be with body.

- What is art?

Life has no another chance It is ridiculous to live without honesty

A relationship. A river.

- What is philosophy?

The original meaning of it: Love to wisdom, despite various philosophical schools A verb: love thinking, pursuing the truth, like Larry Darrell, hero of the Razor’s Edge.

- What kind of jewelry are the good ones?

It can be worn + Someone would like to wear - What kind of jewelry do you want to create?

The poem was written on 26th October 2010. I believe it is also part of the portfolio.

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It is not important what concrete jewelry I want to create. It is important that I still like creating.

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Project Description It was a virtual brand course. It was assumed that every student could be offered a vending machine to sell the products they made.

KEY TO Individual Work Tutors: Teng Fei & Liu Zhizhi Date: March of 2011-April of 2011 Type: Academic

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RESEARCH I researched the history of vending machine and vending machine art during the first week of the course, and had a study on the operating principle of it as well.

The History of Vending Machine and Vending Machine Art

A Typical Vending Machine

1. A Piece of Sky 1966, Yoko Ono

9 trackes of drinks (plastic bottle) 250~600ml ×120

2. The Daily Palette

12 trackes of drinks (zip-top can) 180~355ml ×318

1970, Robert Piser 3. Gumble Poetry 1998, Laura Moulton & Ben Parzybok

Volume of trackes: 100×75×30mm or 93×75×30mm Number of goods: depends on volume of goods

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The first vending machines in regular usage came about in the 1880s in England. They dispensed postcards with science views of London.

Accept: 1 RMB & other coins (sum 300~400)

Vending machine art was popularized by Fluxus movement. Fluxus were the first to recognize the creative potential within vending machines. They blurred the line between art and selling of the art.

There were other artists selling artworks or expressing their ideas via vending machine.e.g., · The Daily Palette. 1970, Robert Piser.

Change: 1 RMB (sum 500 ) & 50 cents (sum 700)

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· The Blumenautomat Gallery, 1970, Georg Gluechman & Suwan Laimanee. · Gumble Poetry, 1998, Laura Moulton & Ben Parzybok.

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KEY TO PROJECT

CONTEXT

immigrate

A key to an ideal house located in outer space

The price of house in China is extremely high nowadays, especially in the big cities. It is normal that an apartment with 100

A key belongs to you.

㎥ costs above 2 million RMB in Beijing. Many young people have to keep working assiduously to repay the loan for 30 years

A house belongs to you.

once they buy a flat. Ironically, the high price of house is due to the speculation of real estate. Thousands of young generations

A planet belongs to you.

have to pay for such an economic bubble.

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KEY WORDS Sci-Fi Outer space Humorous Ironic

The material I wanted to try is titanium, which is a light aerospace material. I also used resin to creat an environment of galaxies.

Many sci-fi films and science fictions inspired me as well, such as Dark City, Men in Black and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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DRAFTS

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EXPERIMENTS OF MATERIALS

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Object: Key to I Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder 9×4.3×1.5cm

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Object: Key to II Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder 4.3×7.4×1.5cm

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Object: Key to III Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder, crystal soil 6×7×4.3cm

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Object: Key to IV Titanium, silver, resin, crystal soil, shining powder, felt 5.4Ă—5.5Ă—1cm

The artistic plan is a joke, but serious.

Key to IV is the final one of my work for the course. I abandoned all features of keys. It is designed as a dart because I deem that all these keys can be hidden weapons, fighting against the negative social problem,even some people.

I wanted an intact joke. However, the keys here cannot speak it totally, so I made a booklet with the keys. If Key to comes on stream, the content of the booklets will be diffenrent. It is only a sample here.

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The image of MU313736 taken by NASA’s space telescope on 24th March 2011.

Your house is located at 47°N ,25°E on MU313736.

It is one of planets in the Sunflower Galaxy.

The key to your house is also a certification to take the spacecraft which shuttles between various galaxy.

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The Sunflower Galaxy is 37 million light-years away from the earth,but close to the well-known Whirlpool Galaxy and the associated Messier 51 group of galaxies.

The various spiral arm segments of the Sunflower Galaxy, also known as Messier 63. Infrared light is sensitive to the dust lanes in spiral galaxies, which appear dark in visible-light images.

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PATH

Your house

The spacecraft will pick you up at the center of Sahara at 0:00 on February 29,every four years.

Leave the Milky Way.

Fly into the Sunflower Galaxy.

You will arrive in the spacecraft station located in the

Map of MU313736

Temperature on MU313736

North Pole of MU313736 after 20 minutes.

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There is no money on MU313716. The unique way to checkout is your key in your hand. The amount in your key is also depends on the weight of your excreta.As everyone knows, it is harmful to the body if you eat too much, therefore, there are no millionaires or billionaires on the planet.

Besides, the residential area has not been sure. It depends on how heavy your first excreta after reaching the planet. It is one gram per square meter. If you want more details, please reference Urban Real Estate Administration Law.

The environment is similar to the earth, including

Interior Decoration of Your House

climates, lanscapes, etc. We are sure that you will not feel strange when get there.

You will see aurora every night after the woman hits a slap on the man’s face.

You will hear the windows singing every moring when you get up.

You will find out your neighbor is Wyman Wong.

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It is a key to nothing, nothing but a lie.

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PACKAGING

APPEARANCE OF VENDING MACHINE

LOCATIONS TO SET

路 Opposite to Land Bureau 路 Opposite to Real Estate Board 路 City squares

Squares in cities represent the development of

The box is made of frosted plastic. An image of an ordinary key is printed on the surface of it. When it is open,a key to a house in

democracy in a country.Citizens can air their opinions

outer space can be seen. There is also a guidebook inside, which can assist you in getting there.

there. Do the authorities allow me to axpress my will by

The price of Key to is about 100 RMB, which is only one part of ten thousand of a real apartment payment.

this way? I want to try.

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Project Description After investigations and surveys of Qeelin and other similar jewelry brands (e.g., Lan, Chow Tai Fook)which were of Chinese style, designed new products for Qeelin.

YUE FOR QEELIN Individual Work Tutor: Zhang Shaofei Date: March of 2010-April of 2010 Type: Academic

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Features of Qeelin

Chinese culture and totems Catering to modern youngsters’ desire and taste Concise colors and shapes (e.g., Wulu) Flexible ways to wearing, playfulness (e.g., BoBo)

Culture Connotation of the Moon Mid-autumn Festival Fairy tales related to the moon Full moon stands for reunion Traditional music

Moon chased by silver clouds

Literature It is overcast to find out the full and scarce of the moon, while people have their reunions and separations as well.

Shui Diao Ge Tou Su Tungpo(1037-1101)

Classic poets also like comparing the moon hiding behind clouds to shy girls or veiled ladies.

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Pendant: Yue Classic Silver, sapphires, 18K gold 2.8×3×0.9cm

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DRAFTS AND OTHER MODELINGS

Ring: Yue 18K gold

Pendant: Yue 18K gold, sapphires 3Ă—4Ă—0.3cm

REVIEW There is an axle behind the silver cloud, connecting the moon and the piece of sky. Wearers can move the blue piece and fix it at a specific angle at will. However, we had a problem here. The whole pendant consists of three main parts. They have to be controlled in an appropriate tightness, in order to avoid the piece of sky being too loose or too tight. It is regrettable that it is too tight finally. The blue piece scratches the surface of the moon.

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Project Description To create something that can express students’ comprehension of oriental luxury.

From my perspective, luxury not only means material prosperity, but also virtue. Even though material prosperity is a crucial aspect of being luxurious, people want to be noble.

ORIENTAL LUXURY Individual Work Tutor: Yan Rui Date: April of 2011-May of 2011 Type: Academic

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Installation: Halo 18K gold, diamonds Diametre:18cm Halo is a symbol of innocent and nobility in western counties, while Utkatasana is a pose in Yoga Exercise. Someone will feel toilsome when he /she experience it.

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OTHER WORKS FROM 2008-2011 Individual Work Type: Academic

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Photography: Untitled | 2010

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Photography: Untitled | 2010

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While he tends to renounce the world, he embraces it.

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PROFILE Name: Li Anqi

Work Experience

Email: angelleecopy@gmail.com

• Design Department, Hiersun, Beijing. July 2010. Paid internship

Cell Phone: +86 15101160746

Gained design experience in the commercial jewelry field by researching and developing new products for I Do.

Address: School of Design, China Central Academy of Fine Arts No. 8 Hua Jia Di Nan Jie Chao Yang District, Beijing

Awards

P. R. China

• 2010-2011 the Second Scholarship of CAFA

Post Code: 100102

• 2009-2010 the Second Scholarship of CAFA • 2008-2009 the Third Scholarship of CAFA

Objective

• 2011 the Third Prize of Outstanding Undergraduate Students’ Works Exhibition, CAFA

Master Program in Jewelry+Metalsmithing,Rhode Island School of Design

• 2009 Finalist Award, the First China Campus Cutting-edge Jewelry Design Manuscript Contest

Proposed term of Entrance: Fall 2012 Exhibitions Personal Information

• Art Beijing 2011, National Agricultural Exhibition Centre, Beijing-2011

Date of Birth: 10 September, 1988

• Exhibition of Outstanding Undergraduate Students’ Works, CAFA, Beijing-2011

Place to birth: Maoming, Guangdong Province, China Citizenship: Chinese

Interests

Gender: Female

Yoga, swimming, writing.

Education School of Design, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jewelry Design-2012 Rank: Top 7th among more than 180 students Skills Jewelry related • Refined skills in metalsmithing, including forging, carving, polishing, stone setting. Lost wax. Resin forming. Felting.

Ceramics. Enameling. Other skills: paper making, print making, photography • Computer related Rhinoceros(modeling). 3DsMax(rendering). Hypershot(rendering). Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator. Adobe InDesign.

Microsoft Word. Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Excel

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Ring: Moor I Resin 1.8×7×2.2cm

Brooch: Homesickness Silver, copper, bark, canvas, watercolour 6.5×6.4×1.7cm 2010

Necklace: Bed Felt, copper, beads 13×7.8×4.5cm 2010

Installation: Halo 18K gold, diamonds Diametre:18cm 2011

Ring: Moor II Resin, cobblestones 1.8×7×2.5cm 2010

Brooch: Disable Silver, copper, canvas, acrylic paint 4.5×4.2×0.5cm 2010

Object: Key to I Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder 9×4.3×1.5cm 2011

Photography: Untitled 2010

Brocch: Moor IV Bark, woolen cloth, magnet 4×8.3×0.5cm 2010

Brooch: I am not the ear for these mouths.

Silver, copper, canvas, acrylic paint, polyurethane 5.9×5.7×0.7cm | 2010

Object: Key to II Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder 4.3×7.4×1.5cm 2011

Photography: Untitled 2010

Brooch: Moor V Bark, woolen cloth, magnet 3.8×6×1.5cm 2010

Object: Absent-minded Silver, paper, acrylic, pencil drawing 3.7×5.4×0.4cm 2010

Object: Key to III Titanium, silver, resin, shining powder, crystal soil 6×7×4.3cm 2010

Brooch: Mute Silver, copper, porcelain 4.2×5×1.3cm 2010

Pendant: Jail Brass, copper, photograph 5.5×4×1cm 2010

Object: Key to IV Titanium, silver, resin, crystal soil, shining powder, felt 5.4×5.5×1cm 2011

Brooch: Irritation Silver, copper, paper, canvas, thread, watercolour, handwriting 4.5×3.5×2.5cm; 4×6.5×0.8cm | 2010

Brooch: The White Sea Silver, copper, canvas, watercolour, thread, coral, acrylic 7.2×4.7×0.7cm 2010

Pendant: Yue Classic Silver, sapphires, 18K gold 2.8×3×0.9cm 2010

2010

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