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Chinese Phoenix coronet by Xinyi Chen

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Published: 20.01.2022

Head piece: Chinese Phoenix coronet by Xinyi Chen.Recycled electronic components(LED, diode, capacitor, inductor, resistor, switch, DuPont line, wire), discarded fruit package, leather, fabric, polyethene. 2016.31 x 32 x 28 cm.Photo by: Ouyang SuyuUnique piece.When I first disassembled a recycled telephone, I was intrigued by an emerald-shaped capacitor, especially for texture, color, precision structure, digital spirituality, and hidden beauty. That’s why I began using e-waste as the gemstone to create jewellery.
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. The Chinese 'Phoenix coronet with designs of six dragons and three phoenixes' occupies a pivotal role in the history of Chinese jewellery. Its strong symbolic meaning emphasizes sociality over aesthetic value. I hope to mix the solemnity of the ritual with modern technology to create a new era of crowns. I discovered the parallel Dupont line in telephone as a new material to make the kingfisher feathers; I stabbed electronic components into discarded fruit package and sew them together into larger shapes.
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. Through creating an electronic material crown, I aim to achieve an unusual goal - a private world that evokes our memories of traditional fine jewellery while retaining its own identity as a separate world..

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