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I am an Edinburgh based, Taiwanese/US jewellery artist, designer and architect. With 2 degrees in architecture, a Bachelor of Architecture from Tunghai University, Taiwan, a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, USA and a Master of Fine Art degree in Jewellery & Silversmithing from Edinburgh College of Art, UK, the inter-disciplinary and multi-cultural experience is what makes my work unique.

Previously trained as an architect, I have always envisioned buildings as machines, and architectural elements are designed to form spaces that manipulate activities and movement. While jewellery cannot divorce itself from the human body, I began to study the most intimate space in between the body and the object, and approach jewellery design as constructing spaces on the topographic contours of the body. Read Less

Luminous Windows is a series of handheld objects, rings and arm piece exploring the tactility of precious body adornment. The silver puzzle pieces were originally made to study the duality of the sliding mechanism, with a motif extruded to different heights and depths, which created a different appearance on the back. The unit as a module, can be duplicated and assembled as large as desired, the tessellation empowers the infinite expansion. In order for the pieces to move, framing is needed both on the top and bottom, and a middle layer offset to one corner is sandwiched in between along with the tile pieces. The precision of spacing and calculation much like any other mechanical equipment is crucial to the movement. Instead of a linear frame that would evidently expose the details, I took inspirations from the latticework and window casing in Chinese architecture, and made the graphics on the modular tiles into an ornamental openwork surface with a precise cutout to encase the puzzle pieces. The circular form and the slightly domed shape completed with the frosted acrylic disk successfully hide away all the engineering; together the three elements extract the piece to its purest essence, as well as liberating the focus and attention on the mechanism. The handheld object thus quietly sits in the centre of the palm, allowing the fingertips to chase after the empty window, where light spills through the organic geometry and illuminates the space between the object and the body. Read Less

Bodyspace/bodyscape performs the transformation that is frozen in time. The manipulation of lines disintegrates the rigor of squares and straight angles, the structure folds, collapses, reconstructs and extends its motion into space. When the action comes to a halt, the movement continues visually.
The study results in a series of undulating solid squares resembling the body landscape. Each of them is a fragment of the body mosaic, and the wiry structure is situated on the tilted fields, grows out of the folded planes, or sometimes converses and dialogues with the unaligned surfaces. The objects can be made small, or large, depending on the number of units; the modular nature of the patterned units allow pieces to oscillate in scale effortlessly, and also various forms and shapes for whichever part of the body. The action in which the movement occurs is presumptuous and temporal, but the effect is long lasting. Similar to Luminous Windows, the materiality and colors dominate the research and practice in the final stage. However, the colors and textures not only provided a different ambiance, they show the versatility and adaptability. In one of the earrings, the oxidized silver provides a darker background to support and contrast the white structure, of which some of the lines and corners are highlighted with fluorescent pink color. The piece instantly possesses an animated quality, and a very dynamic and hierarchical transition from the body surface to the tip of the angle reaching out to infinity. Read Less