Mengyuan Xia
Mengyuan Xia is a jewellery artist based in London. She sees jewellery as a medium for communicating with the viewer's mind, and the appeal of the medium lies in the natural proximity of human beings, a proximity that encompasses both the physical and the psychological.
The boundaries of time are like blurred markers within the flow of time. We live within
time as fish live in water
-breathing, drifting, like clouds in the sky or ripples on the sea.
With Mengyuan Xia’s series ‘The Boundaries of Flow’, her goal was to use jewellery as a medium to physically express psychological perception of the ambiguity of time. While time on a clock is very mechanical and accurate, the way that different people feel the passage of time is very intangible and individual. This led Mengyuan to focus on moments in time, as we experience and remember time through major events in our lives. Her artworks feature physical markers of time – such as clocks, doors, and drawers – but are created using transparent materials – like glass, stone, and silk.
In this project, she adopted an interdisciplinary approach, integrating interaction design to create a dreamlike hyper-realistic jewelry /object.
Rotating ice cubes leave time numbers.
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