A BRACELET

Hua’s exploration of perception continues in her first ice sculpture titled “A Bracelet”, where she tried to reinterpret the nature of chain as a mutable liquid. This attempt to translate the powerful symbolic industrial product into a large ice bracelet chain, transfigures visible matter by melting down 30 kilos of it during the course of a day. After making initial sketches and conducting various experiments with material such as glass and resin, she moved her work’s production to an ice sculpture workshop. There she worked together with the ice sculptor, creating four sets of one meter by one meter crystal clear ice bracelets. 

While visibly focusing on profound material transformation and notions of authority, “A Bracelet” deals with the inextricable relationship between power and fear, the illusion of power and the memory of fear, but also with notions of mass production and consumption. Effectively re-making an industrial product by adopting much temporary industrial means, “A Bracelet” metaphorically represents a constraint product of industrial revolution and also its ephemeral notion of time.