Studio Ching-Hui Yang

Grey Sheep

https://www.instagram.com/studiochinghuiyang/

Location

amsterdam / The Netherlands

University

london college of fashion

Graduation year

2016

Main Manufacturing Countries

The Netherlands

Contact

Ching-Hui Yang graduated from MA material futures at Central Saint Martins, and graduated from London College of Fashion with a First Class Honours in Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Jewellery. She is eager to explore different materials, skills and modes to challenge boundaries of what defines jewellery. She always get a lot of inspiration from investigating people. She is interested in focusing on the relationship between body, object and the absence of an object. She believe she could use experimental jewellery as a way to challenge the boundaries of therapy design. Jewellery can be a way of communicating emotion between people.

For the long term goal, She would like to document and visualise emotion itself - for example a feeling such as denial, anger, bargain, depression or shame. Her aim is for this process and the resulting art pieces to enable a rethinking of the definition of empathy. She wants to draw to peoples attention that design as a form of empathy is the visceral experience of another person's thoughts and feelings from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates prosocial or helping behaviours that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner.

Latest Collection

F.O.G

FOG project sponsored by stimuleringsfonds.nl (Creative Industries Fund NL). This project is concerned with the cycle of emotional blackmail that has established a personal or intimate relationship between two people.

According to the book Emotional blackmail, the theory is that fear, obligation, and guilt ( F.O.G.) are transactional dynamics at play between the controller and the people being controlling. It's a manipulative tool generally used by people in close relationships: partners, parents and children, siblings, and close friends. Emotional blackmailers use fear, obligation, and guilt in their
relationships, ensuring that others feel afraid to cross them, obligated to give them their way, and swamped by guilt if they resist. I have created an AR survey as a way of communicating emotion between people. I have collected all the votes from my website, and I would like to visualise emotion itself - for example, a feeling such as Fear, Obligation, and Guilt.

From the result of the survey, I have created a series of three experimental jewellery pieces based on the concept of emotional blackmail, and three pieces could be combined as one piece of the modern sword, indicating both sides of the controller and the people being controlling are victims. I hope that people will empathize with the experience of others who have gone through the cycle of emotional blackmail.

Previous collections

Standardisation

Im-perfect

Latest Collection

F.O.G

Previous collections

Standardisation

Im-perfect