"the girl from Mars"
I've always considered myself as "the girl from Mars", speaking to the world in my own language.
Having spent ten years of my life living in America with a Chinese background, including four years of college in New York CIty,
I found my creative process becoming driven and inspired by a multitude of unique energies.
It was once I returned to China that I saw myself having entered another enormously unfamiliar society.
Rather Isolated and alien, I found the language I once knew misplaced and unsure.
"The girl from Mars" once again returning on my journey in unearthing my new identities.
As a fashion designer, I'm used to working with the body and all the possible soft structures around it.
While fashion design masks and defines each person to a certain role or identity,
I believe that jewelry is an element that not only reveals, but conceals one's true characters: always carried by its wearer, never having to leave their body.
It's not a diamond's status as a valuable object that attracts me, but rather it's state of being;
a gem that shines from each and every one of its angles regardless of where it sits.
It is a tecnical and systematic architecture that simutaneously possesess great mystic and emotion in its shape.
I love its unyielding nature and the great attraction and desire people have for it.
Thus, I started the process of creating the "Game of Diamond" series,
including the installations and my jewelry collection.