Dorry Hsu

TAO

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Dorry Hsu’s jewellery series ‘Tao’ has the elegant minimal character of lines. Fascinating forms and creative ways of wearing jewellery challenge viewer’s and wearer’s perception of jewellery. The oriental symbolic characteristics of Dorry’s jewellery differentiate her work to western minimal line jewellery. Dorry’s ‘Tao’ series can be read as a delightful poem on body- delicate in proportion, and fitted as haute couture dress.

Dorry Hsu was trained as a conceptual photographer in her BA from Canada, Emily Carr Art &Design University. She brings her conceptual thinking of photography into the jewellery object. As a maker, Dorry creates the sign and symbol on the human body, and use photography to interpret her concept. From the possibilities of wearing, she defines wearing jewellery can be like wearing people’s belief with praying gesture.

“The Tao that can be told is not the real Tao. The name that can be given is not the real name.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

‘Tao’, a philosophy combines the element of Chinese philosophy and Buddhism, is not a ‘name’ for a ‘thing’ but the underlying natural order of the universe which ultimate nature is difficult to limit.

“Starting a project is like beginning a journey. The process of development educates myself. This project starts from ‘defective’ by hammering and forging the fine line like hand drawing, and the destination is the ‘Tao’ that I believe. The design process is intending to bring the intuitive energy of drawing onto the metal work so I insist on the process of hand hammering the wire and forging the form, and it is taking much longer than drawing or bending wire. The forms are inspired by the body outline with the geometry forms, which represent the images of outer world that I absorb. Through the presentation of photography, the conscious action of wearing jewellery is metaphor people’s awareness of overcoming problems by the habit of religion.” Thus, Dorry’s material -bending wire, which is a material, used to solder precious metal and objects provide an even more intriguing meaning.
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source: taotales

“The Tao that can be told is not the real Tao. The name that can be given is not the real name.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

We couldn’t help but feature this on Tao Tales; not only because we share a name, but because we adore both the delicate minimalism of Dorry Hsu’s jewellery series ‘Tao’, and the thought-provoking reasons behind its creation and resulting form.

Originally trained as a conceptual photographer in her BA from Canada at the Emily Carr Art & Design University, Dorry Hsu brings her conceptual thought processes to the jewellery objects she creates.

As a maker, Dorry seeks to create the sign and symbol on the human body, and uses photography to interpret her concept. From the possibilities of wearing, she defines wearing jewellery can be like wearing belief like a gesture of prayer.

Comprised of seemingly simple curved wire lines, the character of each piece challenges both the viewer’s, and wearer’s perception of jewellery. The oriental symbolic characteristics of Dorry’s work differentiate her work to western minimal line jewellery; the ‘Tao’ series can be read as a delightful meditation on the body – delicate in proportion, and as fitted as a haute couture dress.

“The design process is intending to bring the intuitive energy of drawing onto the metal work so I insist on the process of hand hammering the wire and forging the form, and it is taking much longer than drawing or bending wire. The forms are inspired by the body outline with the geometry forms, which represent the images of outer world that I absorb.
Through the presentation of photography, the conscious action of wearing jewellery is metaphor for people’s awareness of overcoming problems by the habit of religion.”