Present is a display of jewellery collection based on origami installation and performance. I am wearing the pieces, sitting in the room filled with hanging origami, while folding the paper. The audience could mimic the performance, folding sheets of paper, and transform it into origami.
Origami is what I played with when I was young. However, with the rise of digital era and mass-production, technology has replaced children’s first steps in hands-on learning, and more tangible social connections with the superimposed reality. The display of origami is a memorabilia meant to evoke sentiment and to illustrate the simplicity of what life used to be.
Through the journey of discovering Florence’s artisanal marbled paper, I have come to a realisation that normal paper — with its ephemeral beauty, can be made as precious as well. Reinterpreting paper gives it more value and desire. During the Medici period, paper was a luxury, surpassing that of gold. However nowadays, the merits of paper has been deprecated to just a mere object. Demonstration of the transformation of paper enables the audience to engage in the act of crafting. Creating a language between the performer and the audience by refining paper into precious adornment.
The origami jewellery collection is not just simple jewellery. It represents the simplicity, ephemerality, and the influence of culture. I hope that the audience could join me to slowly unravel the value of paper in the origami room.
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