Jingyao Wang
About
Jingyao Wang is a mixed media designer who has been exploring her creativity through a combination of innovative materials, light installation art, and traditional textile techniques such as crochet and embroidery. She is also concerned about the application of sustainable materials in future human life.
She believes that simulating natural sensory experiences through visual and auditory means can help alleviate stress and evoke emotions. In today's fast-paced lifestyle, many people are unable to immerse themselves in nature. Therefore, she attempts to establish a sensory connection between nature and humans by exploring the different possibilities of sustainable materials.
Statement
This project aims to create a unique visual language by exploring the various possibilities of natural materials and combining them with textile techniques.
I endeavor to address the issues of production surplus and industrial cycles by utilizing abundant natural materials. Through this project, I envision the temporary transfer of materials from relatively healthier ecosystems, integrating them into human design, and allowing them to naturally decompose back into the natural environment after use.
Moreover, I seek to showcase the boundless possibilities of the plant world by observing plants from different perspectives. In satisfying our yearning for natural diversity, humans create inorganic plants capable of thriving and spreading in any environment and medium.
Hence, I employ the concept of biomimicry, combining it with the diverse fiber patterns of plants, concealing life within transparent resin akin to plant amber. Additionally, I create a rich world of light and shadow through the different colors and textures of the same material. I employ light and shadow to exhibit the material, as a plant's vitality stems from photosynthesis. Thus, the light source presents vitality in an alternative manner. Enveloped in light and shadows, we, like being embraced by the plant world, perceive the nourishment of light.
Selection of plants
Material experiments
The main material I have chosen for this project is the rosin secreted by pine trees.
The main material I chose for this project was the rosin secreted by pine trees. I tried to find more possibilities for this material, but in the process I found it fragile and uncontrollable. I tried to add soy wax to the material to increase its toughness and plasticity, as well as creating a bio-material sealer.
Colours and textures
Inside the rosin, I incorporated handcrafted embroidery patterns made from plant fibers because realistic designs are more likely to evoke associations.
Sealed nature
To enhance the stability of the materials, I used a microscope to observe the cellular morphology of pine tree leaves. By deconstructing and reassembling, I created models that required the combination of smaller forms to replicate the shape of the leaves. Additionally, different assembly methods can yield varied visual effects. I utilized crochet structures to envelop the rosin, serving as a means of connecting the materials.