Jessica
Lu
About
“My work is named Wear What You Want. My idea for this work is to combine the Chinese traditional clothes and ancient armours together, to contrast different peculiarities of these clothes and to tell the audience that you can wear what you want to wear no matter what gender you are. The materials that I will use in this work are black and white fabric, which are the colors that are not defined by gender, aluminum wire and sheet, which are mostly used to make ancient armours and helmets, also used a lot in my major, jewelry. With the combination of these two kinds of material, I got the contrast of hard and soft, cold and warm, and the main idiosyncrasies of male and female in the common sense. I will make the aluminum wire into jump rings and get the jump rings together just like the ancient chain helmet and connect them with the clothes. I will also cut the aluminum sheets and stitch them with the fabric.” - Jessica Lu
Bio
Based in Sydney, Jessica is an adventurer exploring the limits of the definition of jewellery. Mostly focussed on making jewellery, she is has spent her time at SCA developing techniques to create delicate objects. Past projects include ‘Jewellery of the building’, which views the details of the buildings as ‘building jewellery’ and translates them to jewellery for people.