人类喜欢以佩戴首饰的方式体现一些身份或者意义。比如说，人们因为祈求神明的保佑而佩戴手环，人们为了体现个人财富而佩戴贵重的珠宝。我选取了三种常见的首饰，手链，项链和耳环，并用文字来代替这些首饰上的贵重珠宝。而首饰上的文字则直接代表了首饰带给使用者的价值。我希望在这个作品中探讨，当我们把首饰带给使用者的价值文字化后，这种价值是否还能继续存在/这种价值会不会继续被使用者所承认，而文字又是否能代替珠宝本身所拥有的价值。

People like carrying jewelry to show their social status or represent some meanings. For example, people carry beans because they want to pray the god’s blessing; people carry precious metallic ornament to show their wealth. I picked three common kinds of jewelry, bracelet, necklace, and earring, and replace the valuable jewels with 3d-printed texts. The texts on the jewelry directly show the value of the jewelry bringing to its user. In this project, I want to discuss whether the value of the jewelry still exists or is still recognized by the user after replacing jewels with the texts.

For the bracelet (from the previous project), I used “WISH * BLESS YOU” as the texts. The star in there can represent anything. And it relates to people’s different purposes on carrying beans. For the necklace, I’m going to use “PERMIT FOR *” as the texts. The star in there represents different social occasions. For the earring, I’m going to use “I AM” and “ELEGANT” as the texts. The three pieces show the three representative functions of carrying jewelry, Spiritual Value, Social Value, and Aesthetics.