Building Contemporary Personal Narrative through Interpretation of Traditional Chinese Visual Culture
Abstract
This PhD project explores how the negotiation of
different cultures can be reinterpreted in visual form through
jewellery-based object making. Through practice-led research, I
have drawn from my childhood memories of traditional Chinese
visual culture, combining them with images and material relating
to the locations and cultures I have experienced in the present
in order to explore personal identity through the shifting life
experiences I have had in various locations in a multi-cultural
environment. My aim has been to construct an experimental system
of making that would allow me to express cultural identity
through a negotiation of my original culture with other cultures.
The result of my research is a series of jewellery-based and
hollowware-based objects that explore precious metals and other
materials such as plastic and milk powder. This inquiry locates
itself within the field of jewellery and metalsmithing within the
broader sphere of craft, arts and cultures.
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