Juehan Hao

The Colour of Volume

This project explores how the visual language of watercolour and coloured ink can be translated into wearable jewellery forms. Through embossing, spray-painted colour gradients, and metal surface experimentation, the work investigates how transparency, saturation, and layered pigment can create volume, movement, and depth within metal. Inspired by underwater organic forms and the fluid behaviour of paint, the project focuses on transforming painting-based gestures into wearable structures. Rather than using colour as decoration, the work treats colour as a spatial and atmospheric element that interacts with the body. The jewellery becomes fully activated through movement and wear, allowing surface, form, and colour intensity to shift in relation to the wearer.