Miao He
Jeweller
Published: 27.07.2020
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Brooch: MANMAN, 2020
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate.
12.5 x 10 x 4 cm
Inspired by the lovebird from "Classic of Mountains and Seas" which is a compilation of mythic geography. Manman is a pair of bird, female and male; they can only fly when they combine as one.
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Object: Decay, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, found object (antique silver milk jug).
9 x 7 x 18 cm
Photo by: Shuoyuan Bai
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Brooch: Curve, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate, stainless steel (pin).
5 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm
Photo by: Yunchen Chen
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Brooch: Curve, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate, stainless steel (pin).
5 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm
Photo by: Yunchen Chen
Back view.
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Brooch: Curve II, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate, lapis, stainless steel (pin).
4.5 x 11 x 14 cm
Photo by: Yunchen Chen
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Brooch: Curve II, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate, lapis, stainless steel (pin).
4.5 x 11 x 14 cm
Photo by: Yunchen Chen
Side view.
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Brooch: Growth, 2019
Copper, silver, garlic skin, stainless steel (pin).
12 x 10 x 16 cm
Photo by: Yunchen Chen
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Ring: Leaf, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, pearl.
6 x 5 x 10 cm
Photo by: Thomas Yu
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Ring: Leaf, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, pearl.
6 x 5 x 10 cm
Photo by: Thomas Yu
Back view.
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Brooch: Twig, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, agate, stainless steel (pin).
8 x 7.5 x 11 cm
Photo by: Shuoyuan Bai
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Brooch: Vein, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper, pearl, stainless steel (pin).
7 x 10.5 x 14.5 cm
Photo by: Shuoyuan Bai
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Earrings: Untitled, 2019
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper.
3 x 2 x 7.5 cm
Photo by: Shuoyuan Bai
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Brooch: Blooming, 2018
Garlic bottom, sterling silver, stainless steel (pin).
7 x 7.5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Justin Chan
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Brooch: Blooming, 2018
Garlic bottom, sterling silver, stainless steel (pin).
7 x 7.5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Justin Chan
Side view.
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Brooch: Bloom, 2019
Silver, garlic peel, stainless steel (pin).
From series: Bloom
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Ring: Bloom Time, 2016
Garlic peel, sterling silver, copper.
7.5 x 6.5 x 10 cm
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Miao He was born and raised in Beijing, China. Since 2015, she has been studying in the graduate jewelry program at the Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia, USA. The main focus in her study is Product Design, on which she worked during her undergraduate study at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology from 2009 to 2013. She recently finished her M.F.A. degree, and now she continues jewelry research of her organic material works in the United States.
Statement
Decay is part of the journey toward the end of life for all organic matter and is a well-known rule in the world. The meaning of decay is negative and often related to death. People think decay is ugly. In my work, decay is a beauty from a special perspective as if it is a sign of the potential of growing a new life in the process of decline.Through the body of work, I try to explain the vitality behind the original decay in existence. The material that everyone throws away becomes a piece of precious jewelry, the fragility translated into hard metallic substance and the death reversed into a new life. When the garlic peel turns to a brooch, a ring or a pair of earrings, it is no longer useless but becomes the entity of value. Each of the components of garlic peel is growing in their way.
Everyone sees decay pass by time and might feel sad that no way to stop it. However, we can absorb the negative emotion, and translate in the paradoxes in life that reviewed as the beauty of decay.
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