ITS 2020 explained episode 22: Finding order in disorder, by Jing Han.
21 May 2021
Jing Han is a jewellery designer accomplished in working with metal, ceramics, leather and textiles and has had works exhibited in London, Italy and Germany. She was selected as a finalist for ITS 2020 with her collection “Order and Disorder – Wearing Ropes”
Jing got fascinated by researching rope construction techniques and rope linking. Jewellery ropes were the initial idea, but the concept widened to welcome ropes in all shapes and incarnations, realising that opening up ropes to reveal the construction technique would create beautiful aesthetics too: a very ordered method created to build a rope would retain its beauty when disordered. She then applied this beauty of order and disorder on the human body, figuring out unexpected or pleasantly balanced ways of wearing a rope, by playing with size, shapes and materials.
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