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Jewellery & Metal (MA)

Ruoyi Jiang

Can Jewellery Heal Me?

Stemming from the language of Chinese healing practices, Ruoyi's jewellery works selected the symbols - acupuncture points and the human body shape. The collection on interpreting the 'dramatic' relationship between objects and the human structures. The skin-like beige coloured silicone closely corresponds to the metal buttons with a pressing effect. This design depicts a structure similar to the shape of a human skeleton, which is easy to present as a daily accessory.

Regarding from human body and mechanism, Ruoyi enlarged the movement trend of pressing points; setting the design purpose of 'Futuristic'; 'Utopian' (soft; friendly; willing to interact with people) as the main aesthetics for design development. For her, jewellery is not just a daily accessory. It is more like an extended body part connected to our vessels. Thus, Ruoyi integrated pulse sensor into the collection, in the aim of giving the collection vitality under the aid of the wearer's heartbeat.This kind of detection image can deliver jewellery a sense of "energy" to give the user a 'gentle hint' and encourage people to stop and listen to the object. According to the creation plan, we could have a chance for reflecting on our long-term deafness to the things around us and creating a chance of exciting noise for the programmed life.

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesJewellery & Metal (MA)RCA2023 at Battersea and Kensington

RCA Battersea, Woo Building, First and third floors

Healthcare X-ray effect pressing points mood image

The project outcome collection consists of five wearable healthcare jewellery pieces. The collection breaks the inherent understanding of "metal" and "healthcare": they are no longer cold and aggressive but soft, friendly, and willing to interact with people. The collection embodies an interactive relationship between well-being and jewellery through body elegance and acupuncture points.

Intending to discover the bridge between medical elements and jewellery wearers, I redefined wearable jewellery by utilising ways pressure-causing (magnetism, pressing buttons, and ball bearing) and typical materials in the medical spheres (surgery metal; skin-coloured silicone).

For me, jewellery is not just a daily accessory. It is more like an extended body part connected to our vessels. Thus, I apply the jewellery setting knowledge, which embeds pulse sensors into jewellery, to form a heartbeat rhythm(data) brought by participants wearing the artwork and shifting the pulse into the vitality of jewellery pieces.

Ruoyi works with acupuncture point and stemming from the elements of medical silicone and different types of metal.
Hand Clip
Ruoyi works with acupuncture point and stemming from the elements of medical silicone and different types of metal.
Shoulder Cuff
Ruoyi works with acupuncture point and stemming from the elements of medical silicone and different types of metal.
Ear Cuff
Ruoyi works with acupuncture point and stemming from the elements of medical silicone and different types of metal.
Elbow Cuff
Ruoyi works with acupuncture point and stemming from medical silicone, pulse sensor and different types of metal.
Roller Ring

Medium:

Gold metal & Silicone