The Living Shadows

Had some ideas about shadow for the graduation exhibiton last year, we have discussed a lot almost every possibilities of how to use the shadow effectively to the exhibion, and we spent half day together to built a lovely matrix, but actually the concept was not applied to the exhibition, it was ended up in a ridiculous way. Now looking back to the concept, what i am interested is the living shadow, it is notl only the reflection of something but has its own life, even an independent existence, find it out or create it in a smart and humoristic way, still plays low-key but expressively.

These three posts are the outcome of the desing project for my graduation exhibition of maHKU 2010.

I picked up three pieces of jewellery which consisted a series of stories from my primary school education system. In my desing, I tried to deconstruct the straitlaced education system by means of some little fragments within itself, and tried to transform the collective memories into a personal perspective – showing a contrary meaning of the same old symbols, endowed the Red Scarf, Captain Armband and Little Red Flower with a vivid, humoristic and flexible style.

Black and white are the grounding color of the design, red, yellow, blue and green – the typical primitive colors which have been used in the uniform system when I was young were composed the rest of tone.