Cici Lai
MFA in Craft Media
CICILAI.FORMAT.COM/Concentrating on contemporary jewellery design and making, with a research direction in craft discourse. Recently focus on the topic of memory that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer. Investigating the human body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. Photography is a fundamental tool for the artist, serving as a medium for creating art and expressing emotions. Through the use and reference of photos, the artist is able to capture the beauty and emotional resonance of the work, while also engaging with contemporary issues in the worlds of craft, art, and design.
WEARING THE MEMORY | Photography | Bead
This thesis project considers the embodiment of memory and how this concept might be made into wearable ornaments. The resulting works are a memory archive that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer (myself). In the process of making, I see my body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. I developed a visual and an emotional language of a private memory, which begins with photos from my digital album as the inspiration to make contemporary jewellery and wearables. This illustrates how jewellery materializes memory as an abstract faculty of mind and explores the ways in which two-dimensional work may be transformed into three-dimensional objects.
WEARING THE MEMORY | Photography | 3D Print
This thesis project considers the embodiment of memory and how this concept might be made into wearable ornaments. The resulting works are a memory archive that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer (myself). In the process of making, I see my body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. I developed a visual and an emotional language of a private memory, which begins with photos from my digital album as the inspiration to make contemporary jewellery and wearables. This illustrates how jewellery materializes memory as an abstract faculty of mind and explores the ways in which two-dimensional work may be transformed into three-dimensional objects.
WEARING THE MEMORY | INSTALLATION 1
This thesis project considers the embodiment of memory and how this concept might be made into wearable ornaments. The resulting works are a memory archive that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer (myself). In the process of making, I see my body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. I developed a visual and an emotional language of a private memory, which begins with photos from my digital album as the inspiration to make contemporary jewellery and wearables. This illustrates how jewellery materializes memory as an abstract faculty of mind and explores the ways in which two-dimensional work may be transformed into three-dimensional objects.
WEARING THE MEMORY | INSTALLATION 2
This thesis project considers the embodiment of memory and how this concept might be made into wearable ornaments. The resulting works are a memory archive that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer (myself). In the process of making, I see my body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. I developed a visual and an emotional language of a private memory, which begins with photos from my digital album as the inspiration to make contemporary jewellery and wearables. This illustrates how jewellery materializes memory as an abstract faculty of mind and explores the ways in which two-dimensional work may be transformed into three-dimensional objects.
WEARING THE MEMORY | BEAD DETAILS
This thesis project considers the embodiment of memory and how this concept might be made into wearable ornaments. The resulting works are a memory archive that is enacted between ornamentation and the wearer (myself). In the process of making, I see my body as the medium to explore the juxtaposition of both the object and the subject, physical and psychic. I developed a visual and an emotional language of a private memory, which begins with photos from my digital album as the inspiration to make contemporary jewellery and wearables. This illustrates how jewellery materializes memory as an abstract faculty of mind and explores the ways in which two-dimensional work may be transformed into three-dimensional objects.
