Chang Wu

Chang Wu BA(Hons) Silversmithing and Jewellery, The Glasgow School of Art, 2020

How Autistic space is understood is the basis of an idea for this collection. Autism is often associated with negative attitudes, such as fear, panic, anxiety and inferiority. Such attitudes can cause people with autism to be more defensive, in an attempt at a more robust sense of self-protection. In this collection of designs, these relationships are explored, with an emphasis on the self-conscious and self-absorbing nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The collection presents objects that might aid us in communications between these complex interior worlds and other external environments. This is achieved in the process of designing these objects: as the silver changes from a cold, hard to a soft, malleable fine line, silver wire is woven into an open and semi-enclosed space. It moves from its original isolation to a state of openness. Silver wire interconnects with the wearer on contact, but the woven reasonable space maintains a little safe distance from being disturbed, and the soft metal mesh leaves only traces of contac