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Fenghua Ye
Jewellery and Silversmithing MA_MFA

Edinburgh College of Art

Specialisms: Jewellery / Apparel / Digital Manufacturing

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Fenghua Ye

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First Name: Fenghua

Last Name: Ye

Specialisms: Jewellery / Apparel / Digital Manufacturing

Sectors: Fine Art/Photography/Craft / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Product / Architecture / Interiors

My Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

University / College: Edinburgh College of Art

Course / Program Title: Jewellery and Silversmithing MA_MFA

About

Ye prefers getting inspiration from normal objects around daily life, focusing on their forming process, structures and stories behind. Then, she presents the concept with her personal unique understanding. She trys to explore a special relationship between designer and audience by the interactive design. Because she believes that jewellery should not be limited by valible material presenting as a piece of static decoration, but also could be a vivid interactor to tell design stories by itself.

My inspirations are making processes and structures of different kinds of pastry, such as Chinese bao, pie, croissant and so on. I designed a collection of interactive paper jewellery kits, which invite audiences to participate in the jewellery making process. And, according to the fact that most pastries are made directly by a piece of flat flour dough, these paper pieces of jewellery were simplified so that audiences can fold one paper jewellery directly from a prepared paper piece without needing any glue during the whole making process. The colour of this paper jewellery collection is blank because I want to leave some space for audiences to design and show their different styles. I also recorded the folding guide video to teach audiences how to make them. One of the video samples was displayed. It imitated the pastry-making process, and is displayed through the large windows of a bakery, and I am the baker who is making the pastry on the other side of the windows. There is also another collection of steel brooches. These brooches can also be folded directly from etched metal pieces, However, the difference is that they have a more complex structure, which is difficult for audiences to make it by themselves. This project is presented in a menu style. Thank you for visiting my magical Jewellery Bakery. I'm the Jewellery Baker to welcome your visit again.