吴依婷 首饰设计 本科预科

我热爱写作，无论作品类型，叙事性都是不可或缺的重要元素。在创作过程中，我一直追问自己：“如何讲一个故事？”虽然作品是艺术家的信息，但在我看来，“发出宣告”和“说个故事”是有区别的。我想在个人作品中探索和运用叙述方式，创作出让观众可以“阅读”的首饰作品。

《戒指非戒指仍为戒指》系列展示了我作为一位注意力缺失障碍的首饰艺术家，如何创造和看待作品。除了成品，整个制作过程和副产品同样重要。我采用墨鱼骨铸造法，刻意设计了一个变数多且重复性高的制作过程。由于高温会损坏雕刻的图案边缘，我需要准备大量墨鱼骨进行重复铸造，这一过程迅速消磨我的注意力，导致出现许多意外。这些“失误”被保留下来，用于进一步发展。

作为神经多样性的人，我面临许多困难，但也从中获得了独特的视角。我难以按照所谓“正确有条理”的方式完成任务，而找到适合自己的工作节奏至关重要。因此，我想在这个项目中运用自己的方式，将那些通常被视为“失败品”或“不完美”的产物加工，使它们在我眼中变得完美。

作品《荣誉墙》分为两个部分，包括数件可穿戴物品和一个装置，象征着我青少年时期的记忆和家人的期望。装裱框经过了做旧处理，虽然这段记忆已成过去，但其影响仍然持续。装置由实物设置和象征未实现期望的奖状投影组成；而可穿戴的奖状框代表曾获得的荣誉，并遮挡住穿戴者包括脸部在内的身体。穿戴者的身份因此消解，成为展示其成就的“荣誉墙”。这堵墙不仅代表我们所承载的期望，也代表我们自身。

As someone who likes to play with words, storytelling acts as an essential part in my work. Whether it is by conscious or not, and no matter its presentation form. “How to tell the story?” is the question of all questions for me – a question I continue to ask myself repetitively during the creation of my works.

Indeed, the artists would almost always leave a message in their works, yet I feel there are differences between “making a point” and “telling a story”. This narrativity is what I want to explore and create a jewellery piece that the audience will be able to read through.

<A Ring is a Ring is a Ring> is a series of works in which not only the final outcomes are valued, but also the byproducts throughout the process. Together they represent how I view and create artwork as a jewellery artist with ADHD. By using the cuttlefish casting method, I have deliberately created a procedure containing numerous random factors, that required me to repeat the same process over and over again. Since the outline of the shape will fray and distort under high temperatures, copious amounts of cuttlefish sets were needed for more casting attempts. Through this repetition, my attention span would easily run out, thus causing the deformation of the ring shape while carving it out and accidental slips during the casting. All these “accidents” and “mistakes” have been collected and preserved. It is then, left to me to decide on how to do with them.

Being a neurodivergent person has brought me countless troubles, and at the same time granted me insights from peculiar perspectives. Sometimes people with ADHD can work fine at their own pace, but struggle severely when being ordered to do things in “normal” or “correct” method – which is why I want, with my own ways, to edit the outcomes that would be deemed as failures or imperfections in common views into something that feels perfect for myself.

The two-part series <The Honor Wall> – which consists of several wearable objects and an installation – is a reminiscence of my early teenage years. The work conveys the feeling of the need to play the role of a perfect child and the urge to fulfil others’ ideals to honour the family. The installation combines the solid objects – the empty frames on the wall with a pair of shoulder straps – and the fictitious part – the projected images of merits which symbolised the unachieved expectations. The frames and the merits that appeared in this series are aged and worn out. These expectations – as well as the burden they carried – may seem long lost in the past, but somehow may remain for a lifetime.

For the wearable pieces, most of the wearer’s front body – including face – will be covered by the merit frames. The identity of the wearer therefore gradually vanishes,

and turn themselves into a wall that uses to display all the glories they have won. The “honour wall” is both the expectation we bear and the bearer themselves.