Materials: Sterling silver, fine silver, copper, enamel, hand-carved purple heart, cloisonne, thread, wood beads, found objects
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1 inches
This story is from an ancient Chinese four-word-idiom. The original text offers a positive meaning to the talent person. I use a different perspective to read the idiom to represent the society today ironically. It's a colorful world. Behind colors, however, violence, monopoly and autarchy are still in our everyday life.
Photo credit: Yu Xia
Mengnan QU
New Paltz, NY. USA
Mengnan Qu Jewelry and Metalsmithing
My work focuses on amalgamating traditional Chinese elements with contemporary metalsmithing. As a Chinese who lives in western society, I stand outside of my country, which provides me a different perspective to see my country and the society.
The color of enamel is the most important part of my works. I believe enamel is the medium carries history between western and eastern culture. The diversity of these colors offers me space to depict my mind.
I am always inspired by old text and stories. Culture is not only its symbols, but also everyday life happens to us, with us and in us. Stories are changed by history, but the new narrative of an old story contains the real situation of cultural ideology and thinking method.
Materials: Sterling silver, fine silver, copper, enamel, hand-carved purple heart, cloisonne, thread, wood beads, found objects
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1 inches
This story is from an ancient Chinese four-word-idiom. The original text offers a positive meaning to the talent person. I use a different perspective to read the idiom to represent the society today ironically. It's a colorful world. Behind colors, however, violence, monopoly and autarchy are still in our everyday life.
Photo credit: Yu Xia
Mengnan QU
New Paltz, NY. USA
Mengnan Qu Jewelry and Metalsmithing
My work focuses on amalgamating traditional Chinese elements with contemporary metalsmithing. As a Chinese who lives in western society, I stand outside of my country, which provides me a different perspective to see my country and the society.
The color of enamel is the most important part of my works. I believe enamel is the medium carries history between western and eastern culture. The diversity of these colors offers me space to depict my mind.
I am always inspired by old text and stories. Culture is not only its symbols, but also everyday life happens to us, with us and in us. Stories are changed by history, but the new narrative of an old story contains the real situation of cultural ideology and thinking method.