Lithos Offering
-Jewellery
This series is inspired by the artist's personal experience of funeral rituals and related cultures, exploring the contradictions from the perspective of oblation, encompassing both form and content. It draws inspiration from food, such as cake, as sacrificial offerings. Simultaneously, it incorporates animal bones ashes, which are also a product of high temperature, into the composition. These bone ashes symbolize deceased creatures, while being reborn as colourful candy and cake. To achieve it, bone ashes with enamel powder are blended, giving rise to a novel enamel variant. In contrast to traditional enamel with metal base, this technique creates independent three-dimensional enamel form. Through fire, the bone-enamel mixture expand a foam-like internal structure, resulting in a light weight with textured resemblance to rough stones on the surface. The crafting process involves dozens attempts for each "stone" to attain the desired outcome. Efcolor enamel encases the bone-enamel in a wearable silver "cupcake case", For aesthetic enhancement, complemented by the application of gold foil.
















