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Source: https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/657241/cover

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Tracewear

Yimeng Gao

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I’m a jewellery designer who explores how people live, move, and leave traces in the city through wearable objects. Living in different countries shaped my understanding of space, identity, and belonging.

Rooted in everyday life, I seek to create jewellery that people truly need in an urban life—pieces that invite interaction, reflection, and connection. Jewellery, to me, is a way to carry memory and explore how we move through the spaces we live in.

I’m a jewellery designer who explores how people live, move, and leave traces in the city through...

College London College of Fashion

Course BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery

Graduation year 2025

Can jewellery join the relationship/experience between people and city?

This series of works originates from the restoration of a pair of rings, during which I observed the unique imprints left by different wearers on their jewellery. This led to a reflection on “ traces” as a mechanism of connection. Through the interaction between jewellery, the body, and urban space, the works explore how traces are produced, recorded, and perceived in everyday life. Traces are not only evidence of existence, but also a visual language of communication that reveals the mutual interaction between people and their environment. Using material experimentation and urban observation as mediums, the project constructs a sensory-based relationship of “ leaving traces,” thereby promoting a deeper connection and understanding between people and the city in contemporary society.

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- https://www.instagram.com/gym.gao
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