Yin Zhong is a contemporary jewellery and glass artist/designer. Having studied for her BA in China she is currently studying and based in London. Yin studied Glass and Ceramics in Tianjin Academy of Art and graduated in 2018 before the journey in RCA.
Yin Zhong
Every piece of jewellery or object has its own story, but is it all of the stories that could be told and heard?
Psychology has always been a subject of my interest. It not only helps to rationally understand our emotional feelings, but it is also a way to understand the personal relationships in human communities. In most of these works, I have explored emotions that would easily be ignored or buried.
In this final project at the RCA, I have tried to create an artwork in which everyone’s story could be told. As I try to explore the unlimited personal stories in a limited material space, the works seek to convert the protagonist to the participating audience and bring forward a chance for everyone to hear their inner self.
WHO AM I ? --- Be true to yourself 1 — The combination of digital sensors and physical materials to present the process of finding inner self through reflection.
Picture 1 — As the process of fuzzy-like reflection of self, it aims to shows the different level of self- identity losing as a way to bring the idea of finding the true self through self-reflection.
Picture 2 — Experiencing through all the mirror and having a conversation to yourself.
Picture 3 — Find yourself through the mirror.
Picture 4 — As a part of the experiencing, heart rate will be recording through the sensor and catch the anxiety emotions.
Picture 5 — Process of body talk.
Picture 6 — Try to find self under the cover.
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Within this project, I try to show one's inner emotions and the connection between the individual and community. How the people impact others' “ concept of oneself.” The project innovates through the use of galium as a reflective medium and works as a visual metaphor in flux between solid and liquid states of being.
The project is separated into three parts---- “communications, languages and emotions”, to develop and find out the best way to build a bridge in which everyone could have a chance to face themselves directly and experience the process of a “shaping the concept of self”.
For "communication", it shows the way in which we communicate with ourselves and the self-concept building effect by the environment changing.
From "language", it explores the way in which our body speaks for our changing, developing, and fluid emotional states.
From "emotions", it combines with communication and language through electronic and physical ways to show how people’s self-identity and emotion is changing through inner communication with their own language.
Medium:
Gallium, Arduino Uno R3, Soft mirror, heart rate sensor, heating padSize:
40*50Who am I ? --- Be true to yourself 2 — Two different comparison of original live camera and pixel effect camera, it aims to explore the difference between natural like reflection and processed reflection. And how it would affect the emotions changing when one person being changing or control by the environment.
Live camera of natural reflection
Live camera of pixel effect reflection
As a way to show the reflection of one person, the camera could be seen as an aspect of the digital mirror to (re)present a way of self-understanding. It brings forth another vision of exploring the self through different media.
