Growing, the spirit of line by Jiayang Xie

Statement: Jiayang Xie works as a jewellery designer and maker and is concerned with the intercultural meanings of traditional Chinese and Japanese art.  For her final year project she investigated in those subjects, which share a vibrant, natural, floating line and a form of beauty in established patterns; and importantly a unique understanding of space. Transforming these ideas into the designs, her jewellery are statements that can shed light on these conventional approaches to aesthetics in decorative objects. Each piece is intended as a translation of these methods, of the intimate connections between the human body as both vessel and wearer. The language of traditional techniques (especially filigree) are used in these designs in order to develop and explore the interaction of space and decoration in a different approach to contemporary studio art and design.