“山水” Cooperation with Jewellery designer-Chen-Hsing Lee

The Chinese expression for landscapes, Shan Shui, means ‘mountain and water.” Shan Shui is a 10-piece collection of Chinese jewellery. It explores jewellery carving, casting and subtle patination to reflect the natural processes of weathering. Yin Yang philosophy forms the backdrop landscape, a harmony of contrast and flow in interpersonal space and aesthetics. As you walk into a garden you become the moving pulse and the garden becomes the motionless vessel of time, together an embodiment of Shan Shui. The human body echoes the movement in the water “Shui” and the jewellery anchors the mountain “Shan”. The collection uses these ideas to identify one’s culture within a multicultural environment, blurred in today’s social communities. Where identity is no longer defined by race and gender but life experiences, new and old. The design exploration investigated a sophisticated and evolving marketplace. Culturally positioned through the selection of historical gardening and the concepts of Yin Yang, unlocked access to discussions about the emerging value systems of Generation Z. As the value of luxury is shifting to experiences. Space is the most direct way to understand the culture. You walk into the culture and you are redefined by your experience.