# Project Description On The Menu Shi Huang Summary Final work throughout her academic journey, she has been deeply passionate about exploring the use of mixed materials. She began experimenting with materials like leather and ceramics early before the journey and in every project during her study, she consistently incorporated various composite materials into her designs. However, considering wearability and material strength, the application of mixed materials often faces many limitations. As she has often struggled with, her designs usually don’t start with a specific type of jewellery but rather emerge from an independent 3D concept, after which she consider its relationship with the body as wearable art. throughout her academic journey, she has been deeply passionate about exploring the use of mixed ... College London College of Fashion Course BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery Graduation year 2025 "On the MENU" Series: A Visual Allegory of Food Alienation Shi's "On the MENU" series reexamines the distorted relationship between humans and food in the industrial age with a playful yet incisive approach. By absurdly combining salt dough with metal, the series constructs seemingly appetizing yet inherently threatening "food"—serving as both symbols of temptation and metaphors of alienation. The artist chose salt dough, a traditional material for children's crafts, as the medium, leveraging its malleability to sculpt everyday food items like roast chicken, bread, and pudding. Yet, she deliberately embeds "unnatural" elements—metal skeletons, red diamonds, and jagged structures—into these forms. The fluffy bread pendant conceals cold, hard diamonds within, the melting pudding ring reveals exposed wires at its edges, and the ketchup droplet earring dangles with a glaring red diamond embedded inside. This material clash creates a striking cognitive dissonance: just as viewers are drawn in by the lifelike appearance, the abrupt intrusion of industrial elements shatters the "edibility" of the food, exposing its true nature as a product of consumer society. The roast chicken brooch is perhaps the most impactful piece in the series—its golden, crispy skin contrasts horrifyingly with the exposed metal skeleton beneath the torn flesh, resembling a dissection of industrialized food production. Through this visual contradiction, Huang Shi questions how modern humans unknowingly consume food that has been mechanically disassembled, reassembled, and packaged. Meanwhile, the teardrop-shaped ketchup earring, precariously dangling, satirizes the performative illusion of "freshness" and "naturalness" in consumer culture. By transposing food symbols from the plate to wearable art, "On the MENU" elevates the ordinary into the realm of high art. These pieces are no longer mere adornments but a diagnostic report handed to contemporary society—wrapped in humorous forms yet carrying sharp, probing questions. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project "On the MENU" Series: A Visual Allegory of Food Alienation Shi's "On the MENU" series reexamines the distorted relationship between humans and food in the industrial age with a playful yet incisive approach. By absurdly combining salt dough with metal, t... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Materiality Play Identity Being Human