ARTIST STATEMENT

My current work explores the overlap between fashion and Jewelry, both of which reflect the complexity of identity. As an artist and a designer, my background and training prepared me to dissect and rebuild the relationship between and potential of jewelry and garments. The potential of hybridity serves as a methodology to combine and conflate the two disciplines. My current work represents a synthesis of the study of form and a critical approach towards contemporary jewelry and fashion aesthetics.

My work magnifies the intimate relationship between clothing, jewelry, and the body through strategies of juxtaposition, shifts in scale, and surrealism. Hybrid Garment counters the problem of some clothing and art jewelry never meeting the body. Most jewelry artists and fashion designers spend time on the ideas behind their work and how to express the relationship between the work and the body. Their works are presented through the act of looking in art galleries, museums, or distant drawers, while Hybrid Garment insists on being worn on the street, bus station, and in the supermarket. This is amplified by the interactive and seductive quality of the street space, reshaping and revealing the identity of the wearer — allowing people to re-examine the intimate relationship between clothing, jewelry, and body. The essence of the work embraces people with different genders and strives to express the wearer's individuality.