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Tianxi Bi

BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
Tianxi Bi Tianxi.Bi@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
2021
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The image shows two photographs and an image of a broach. The photographs show a young Chinese woman with long black hair wearing a black jumper. She has a broach that is shaped like a mobile phone and is made of soft fabric circles in orange and copper colours. IN the second photo a close up shows some hands holding a mobile phone with the broach visible on the models top.
Fingerprint Screen Brooch by Tianxi Bi

With the spread of the pandemic, people have a deeper understanding and awareness of the importance of social media on human life. My work explores on the relationship between social media and human beings through contemporary jewelry. The relationship is examined through a focus on touch and ideas generated around the connection between the temperature of my finger and the cold screen of an internet-enabled device. My work explores the physicality of the touch with the finger and the identity of the individual. My jewelry explores finger shape, fingerprint sliding, pressing and other dynamic technologies to create wearable objects that explore the clay as both state and form. I use acrylic dyeing, 3D modeling and printing technologies combined with the back needle of metal processing jewelry. The brooch work uses elements such as fingers and screens to show the indispensable connection between social media and people on a small-scale but through a direct way. The work makes explicit the wearable connectivity of the mobile device through contemporary jewelry.

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How Do I Open A PDF? is a virtual exhibition of works and ideas by graduates of BA (Hons) Art and Design. Covering a broad range of themes and contexts, the works explore what it means to operate as interdisciplinary artists and designers in 2021. There can be little doubt of the impact that Covid-19 has had a on this cohort, and yet, for all of the challenges, the students […]

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