Eighteen
She constructs and fabricates sculptural jewelry that express the reflection of human sentiment in nature through the connection of jewelry and body. Her work focuses on trauma and traumatic experience. Combining material such as Metal, Enamel, Paper, Resin wool. Her work creates a contrast of hard and soft. She uses enamel techniques to explore color and nature surfaces, and to bring drawing skills into her metal works.
Eighteen (Yihan) Yuan is a metalsmith and jeweler born in China. She moved to the United States and received her Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from State University of New York at New Paltz in Metal in 2020.