Busy Week 3 :: 忙碌的第三週

在開學的第三個禮拜，變得異常的忙碌，有一個作業、一個報告跟兩個小短文的閱讀，幫朋友慶生，外加訂車票跟鐵路卡（young person railcard）。不過因為課堂上的討論，開始瞭解到外國的教育跟台灣的是如何的不同。他們並不會告訴我應該怎麼做，或是何時要做，甚至是做的好不好，一切都是自己來，自己找方法。我想這樣開放的態度對我現階段來說是很有用的，尤其自己在設計了那麼久的時間之後，應該讓想法更廣闊，努力打破自己的設限。

其中有個必聽課叫CVCS（其實還不是很瞭解它的功用..），老師要我們介紹一件自己很有興趣或是喜愛的作品。我介紹了藝術家Dorothy Cross在2000年的影片創作-'eyemaker'。這是我在2002年的台北當代藝術館看的展覽-「科技禁區」的作品之一，總共是22分鐘的影片，影片全程都是在拍攝玻璃工藝師如何從零，用拉絲技法，製作出一顆栩栩如生的玻璃眼珠。影片的最後，藝術家要求工藝師將作品吹破，一瞬間眼球破裂成千千萬萬個碎片，化為無形。

我想在這件作品中，藝術家傳達了從無到有，從無形到具體，從人工到自然，和從完美到破碎的過程。另外這件作品給觀看者的衝擊，也是相當強烈的，我總期待著眼球完成的時刻，一件作品完美呈現的時刻，然而在最後，眼球卻是破碎的，一瞬間化為虛有，那種從期待到失落的感覺，是相當奇妙的，也不同於以往藝術作品所傳達單一或是完美的概念。我也從那時開始思考，我的作品是否也可以給觀看者或是配戴者一些感受，除了美麗以外的感受。於是2008我做出了「森之夜想」系列，將自己的恐懼轉換到作品上，相信也讓一些觀看者感受了相當的恐懼感，而那正是我想表達的一部份。我也希望未來能繼續把這樣的概念加到作品上。

Eyemaker - Dorothy Cross, 2000

這是我一直忘不掉的作品之一，而我一向喜愛不完美的美麗，就像電影「美國心玫瑰情」的故事，縱然最後留下一抹淡淡的憂傷，但其實那就是人生最美的片刻。


In third week, I finished my first project, one presentation and two short reading in school, celebrated my friend's birthday, applied for railcard and booked the tickets. It is quite a busy week, however, I really learned a lot thought these experiences.

I have realised how different the education in UK and Taiwan is. I have to find out what I can do and need to do for my study, and never limit myself at first. Then I can have more possibilities and gain more knowledge from different sources.

In one of my lecture, the teacher asked us to introduce a work I like or I am interested in. I selected a piece of video art created in 2000 by Dorothy Cross, an Irish artist. I saw this work in an exhibition called 'TECH/NO/ZONE' at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei in 2002. It's a 22-minute video, projected on a screen. It presents a process of making a glass eye that made by ocularist by using lampworking skill. You can see how the ocularist creates a glass eye from glass rods to an artificial eye, and how real it is. At the end of video, she has directed the ocularist to destroy his work – blowing apart the eye. Suddenly, the eye becomes a thousands pieces.

In this work, I think the artist tried to display the journey from empty to concrete, artificial to natural, and perfect to broken. In addition, the feeling of audience follows the making process. At first, I am very expected what will happen next, and I also can feel the eye almost done and is so beautiful and perfect. But it just broken in a second and nothing left. I was astonished at that moment. I started to think what kind of art work can brings such emotional feelings to audience, and keep all the images in my mind. Can I achieve this result in my work? That is a question I thought about at that moment, and I would like to explore in every piece of my creations. Then I created 'Forest Fantasy' in 2008, the first attempt, and wish I can do more about it in the future.

It is the one of the most unforgettable creation I have seen. I really love the broken/imperfect beauty, like the movie 'American Beauty', the sadness left in the end of life is the most beautiful moment.

Two trips in the first week! :: 第一個禮拜的兩個校外教學

在ECA(Edinburgh College of Art)開學的第一個禮拜，我就參觀了蘇格蘭的兩間博物館跟一間美術館。博物館分別是St Andrews Musuem與National Museum Scotland，美術館叫做Dovecot Studios。

St Andrews Musuem

在9月24日，我們整個系先參觀了St Andrews Musuem，博物館就位在小鎮St Andrews裡，那是一個非常可愛的小鎮。我們參觀的展覽叫做Marzee Collection，由位於荷蘭的Marzee美術館（Galerie Marzee），展出他們的珠寶收藏。令人感到不可思議的是，美術館的擁有者（Marie Jose）也在現場，讓我們聆聽她的故事與提問。

St Andrews Musuem 樓梯

Marzee Collection

小鎮 St Andrews

小鎮 St Andrews（是個有陽光的好天氣～）

隔天一早我們參觀了National Museum Scotland，參觀博物館並不稀奇，神奇的是我們是從後門進去的，看到的是他們博物館收藏的所有珠寶，從古埃及到現代都有。那些我在書上看到的古董珠寶、皇冠，通通都在眼前，還可以讓我觸摸，真的是讓人感動萬分～下午則是到了Dovecot Studios美術館，看他們的展覽。其中一個展覽叫做Jerwood Contemporary Makers，裡面有一位設計師的作品讓我感到印象非常深刻，她叫做Linda Florence（剛被提名British Design Award），作品名稱叫做Sugar Dance，她將她設計的圖案用糖粉撒在地上，並請到舞者於其上跳華爾茲，將圖紋用不同於一般的方式展現，糖粉就像雪花般紛飛，氣氛十分的唯美浪漫。

National Museum Scotland (蠻大的，應該要花一天來看)

Dovecot Studios Gallery

Beautiful 'Sugar Dance'

真的覺得自己超級幸運，可以得到這些在台灣都沒有的體驗，而這些竟然只是開始呢！


Ref. Links:
St Andrews Musuem
Galerie Marzee
National Museum Scotland
Dovecot Studios
Linda Florence



In the first week of my study, I have been traveled two museums and one gallery. One museum is St Andrews Museum, another is National Museum Scotland, and the Dovecot Studios gallery.

On 24th Sep., we took the trip at St Andrews outside Edinburgh and visited the Marzee Collection at St Andrews Museum. This exhibition shows the collection of Galerie Marzee, and the most amazing thing is the owner of gallery - Marie Jose is there. We can talk to her face in face. That is an opportunity that I never have in Taiwan. The showing way of this exhibition is also well. After the visiting, we took lunch in St Andrews, which is a really lovely town. There are so many cute shops!

In the next day, we visited National Museum Scotland, we saw the jewellery collection of the museum and have an unbelievable chance to see the jewelleries from Egypt time to now. The 19th century jewelleries I saw on the books all become real and I can touch them as well!! That is truly a great experience, and I am so grateful to that. Then we visited Dovecot Studios - a gallery in the city. I also saw a modern art exhibition called Jerwood Contemporary Makers and have many inspirations in there. The most impressive one is from Linda Florence, a textile designer, shows her video of her work called 'Sugar Dance' in this exhibition. I really love the way she shows her works and the atmosphere in it.

How can I be so lucky to see these? However, it is just the beginning.

MARU in Edinburgh

來到愛丁堡已經兩個多禮拜了，美麗的街景跟自然景觀，真的讓我感到無比的幸福跟幸運。到處是百年的教堂和城堡，多樣的美術展覽，我想這一年是可以好好充實自己的。

9月4號從台北出發，在荷蘭阿姆斯特丹的機場轉機，一共飛了18個小時，來到這個半個地球遠的地方，整個就是一個新的開始。不過用了五年多的相機，就這麼在阿姆斯特丹飛愛丁堡途中壞掉了，以致到現在都沒相機可用。希望下禮拜有銀行帳號跟手機，就有錢買新相機了！

而剛到愛丁堡就被微涼的天氣給嚇到了，大約台灣的12～15度左右，之後的兩個禮拜就都幾乎都是溫暖的好天氣了。一直到這幾天，才又回到像第一天的偏冷氣候，而氣象預報下禮拜是9～12度！（晚上的愛丁堡真的很冷啊，而這只是初秋呢...）

我也幸運的在剛到愛丁堡的幾天內，就看到了愛丁堡藝術節閉幕的煙火，整個愛丁堡市區都是看煙火的人潮，而且整整放了一個小時。在異鄉看到中國人發明的煙火，綻放的如此燦爛，思緒也複雜起來。到了半個地球遠的地方，遠離了愛我的家人..男友..朋友..，陌生的語言和環境，通通都是無比的大的挑戰，但我想自己會慢慢克服的，並在克服之後，火花會越來越多，也越加燦爛。

阿姆斯特丹機場的金屬雕塑（將金屬做的柔軟又可愛）

往愛丁堡飛機上的雲朵（相機就是在這個時候掛掉了）

愛丁堡傳統酒館的樣貌

好吃的食物（第一天吃很好吃，之後就開始懷念台灣食物了＠＠）

藝術節閉幕的煙火

I have been in Edinburgh for two weeks. I do feel I am very lucky to be this place that has so many beautiful sights, nature, ancient churches and castles, and various art exhibitions. I can really learn and sense a lot from all of it.

I took a flight from Taipei in 4th Sep., then transfered in Amsterdam, then after 18 hours I arrived in Edinburgh. Everything in here is totally new for me; the weather is so cool even it is actually very good for all Scottish, the food is delicious when I had in the first day, and the language that is so different from chinese. However, I think I will over come all of it, like the fireworks I saw in the end of The Edinburgh International Festival, they sparked so pretty and brilliant in the foreign sky yet they were invented in Asia.

MARU ＆ Miss Maru的新旅程

給親愛朋友們：

MARU即將在2009的9月，出發到英國愛丁堡，就讀Edinburgh College of Art的珠寶設計碩士。這是一個重大的決定，是為了能在未來做出更好的設計，對自己更加的要求，期望賦予Miss Maru©新頁的里程碑。在出國的這段期間，MARU會將在英國的所見所聞繼續於BLOG刊載，分享英國的設計和生活的點滴，也會繼續創作珠寶，期待著由不同文化碰撞出火花的作品～

而Miss Maru©的商品服務，將於9月後異動如下：
＊Yahoo拍賣網頁
商品會先暫時下架，整理後會將現貨商品繼續刊登販售，但商品一旦售出即絕版，也不會再重新刊登。新品則會在英國當地製作，並於Yahoo拍賣網頁刊登，且註明是否在國外，運費也會因此調整為國際運費，能夠接受的買家再下標。

＊Miss Maru©商品售後服務
需維修與保養的商品依舊依照原維修程序辦理，所以客戶仍能享受原有的優惠與維修服務。

感謝這一年多來大家對MARU和Miss Maru©的支持，希望自己未來可以不斷的進步，創作出更好的作品給大家～

在此獻上最誠摯的祝福給大家～^__^


To My dear friends,

MARU will go to Edinburgh in September to study MA degree in Jewellery at ECA. It is a big decision to me, not only for making a better design also for achieving my goal - being a great jewellery designer. When I study in UK, I will keep writing my views and experience on BLOG, and creating my new jewellery. I wish I could create more and fabulous jewelleries with a different culture influence and the new studies.
Miss Maru product service will be changed as follows:
*Yahoo Auction Shop
All items would not be sold temporarily. After being arranged, they will be posted again. Once they were sold out in Taiwan, they will not be posted again. New items created in UK also will be posted on the page, however, the shopping fee will be charged when they are ordered from Taiwan. Please read the policy on the new product page.
*Customer Service
All services will not be changed. Every request and maintenance from customers can be solved by the details of the "Assurance" page.
Thank you for all supports and encouragements from my dearest friends and customers. I will do my best in creating jewellery, and try to make my design better and better in the future.
Best Wishes,
MARU

IYDE國際青年設計創業家工作坊

在2008年的6月16日，MARU參加了一個非常有意義的活動，就是IYDE國際青年設計創業家工作坊。

這個活動是由英國文化協會（British Council）舉辦，目的是為了讓在設計領域上創意創業家可以有發聲的機會，並到國外參展與國外設計師交流。而這個工作坊是以通過書面初選審核的參賽者為主，安排學術與業界知名的導師 (Mentor)參與討論，創造一個和彼此互動學習的機會。參加的導師有：政治大學創新與創造力中心的溫肇東教授、華晶創投總監的曾煥哲(Joseph)老師、中子文化執行人的張培仁(Landy)老師（簡單生活節主辦者）、出色創意執行長的陸承蔚(Lou)老師。

一開始經由大家的自我介紹，我看到了好多跟MARU一樣，將自己的理想全力付諸實現的創意創業家，而且大家不約而同的往環保與文化發揚的方向在努力，真的是相當令人感動～之後經由不同老師的課程與活動，讓大家對自己的事業模式做更深的反省與規劃，幫助我們這些創業家思考更多問題。最後每個老師都對我們說了一些鼓勵與建議，希望我們繼續努力，不要因為任何原因而妥協自己。

我想這個部份真的是很重要，也很需要克服的一環。每個創業家一定會碰到如資金..技術..和共同合作等各環節的問題，每個環節都是對自己的打擊與考驗，放棄的念頭更是會不停的發生。但還好自己可以陸陸續續，得到許多不同的鼓勵，讓自己繼續相信自己的信念，堅持走下去。真的感謝所有給予MARU與Miss Maru©支持的所有人，你們的鼓勵、認同、欣賞或是一個拍賣網頁的問題，都會是我繼續生長的養分。


這次參加創意創業家有～（還有很多是創意市集推廣者...創意概念者...等等）

可愛的 金可蘿Dream Carrot --手工車縫的夢幻包包與配件(Hand-made Begs and Accessories)
愛台灣的 農麗Nong-Li --推廣在地台灣精神與文化的潮流品牌(Taiwan Style and Sprit Goods)
勇敢地球人 漱木齋home-handiwork --環保手繪圖畫與回收木頭創作(Hand-made Drawings and Wood Crafts)
愛寵物又愛地球的ppark--生產環保在地的寵物用品(Eco-friendly Pets Equipment)
時尚的 黑田莉子牛肉乾 --家傳的牛肉乾滋味加上新穎的包裝設計

這真的是一個很美好的經驗～也希望大家能支持在台灣土地努力的所有創意創業家！～^^

（結束回家的路上,天空剛下過雨,好美好乾淨～）

I have attended a meaningful competition called International Young Design Entrepreneur (IYDE) Award 2009 these days, and participated the workshop for candidates on 16th June. This competition is held by British Council. The goal of it is creating the opportunity for creative design entrepreneurs to have a chance to attend the exhibition called 100% Design in UK. The workshop aims to let every design entrepreneur think about their business though the activities and lectures from some good mentors: Professor Wen(
Professor & Director of The Center for Creativity and Innovation of NCCU), Joseph(Managing Director President if Crystal Ventures), Landy(Inaugurator of Simple Life) and Lou（The CEO of Pumpkin Creative Inc.）. They all gave us their good advice and encouraged us to keep working on our business. I was so touched in this workshop. It is not only because I met so many talented people in Taiwan, but also encouraged by mentors and these entrepreneurs well. I really glad I can attend this competition and have such a great experience. And Thanks all supports from my family, friends, customers and any people who gave MARU and Miss Maru© courage.

2009/6/21 夏至關燈

2009/6/21 夏至關燈
讓夏夜的風吹拂自己的臉龐吧～隔天要拚命的努力了！！

2009/4/1~4/30 Miss Maru 品牌週年慶特惠！

★★Miss Maru©品牌週年慶特惠★★
1｜商品全面9折優惠(郵資另計)
2｜購物滿兩千，即贈送Miss Maru©獨家設計手工訂製多用途小包
(與Old Stuff合作開發，可放面紙或悠遊卡～手工縫製的巴黎鐵塔與Miss Maru©Logo，絕對是獨一無二的喔～)

Miss Maru©於2007年創立，2008年4月開始正式營運，這一年來Maru經歷了許許多多的第一次；第一次申請商標...生產自己的商品...賣出第一件商品...在創意市集銷售自己的作品...等等，一切都是從零開始。

到2009的4月，就是Miss Maru©滿一週年的日子，期許它在未來慢慢的茁壯。也謝謝大家這一年來的支持，Maru會繼續加油與改進商品，並努力將它推向更多領域與國際市場。


另外多件限量商品即將絕版，包括：
限量豆莢純銀耳環~EJE0001
限量許願骨純銀墜鍊~EJP0002
限量Ocean Season I 墜~EJP0006（Old Stuff）
限量Ocean Season II 墜~EJP0007（Old Stuff）
限量聖誕物語墜~EJP0012（Old Stuff）

★★請大家把握最後購買的機會～欲購買商品請參考左側連結，謝謝～★★

最新作品 :: Free Will系列

「Free Will」系列是最近Miss Maru©一直在進行的一個系列，從去年底的Star Wish Nacklece開始，就不斷的著手實驗與創作，嘗試將珠寶以半自然的方式，捕捉瞬間留下的美麗。

在這個現代化的時代，太多事物可以用機器去取代；包括珠寶。雖然以機器製作大多數的珠寶，將成為不可避免的商品製程，但如何在手工與機器間取捨，或設計出機器無法複製的概念與結構，則是未來珠寶設計無法不去考慮的重點之一。我期待設計出物美價廉的珠寶，也期待創作出保留了手工質感，與傳遞情感的珠寶。未來仍有無限的可能性與實驗計畫，等待一一去完成。

鱗片墜(搭配黑色麂皮繩)-限量一件（已賣出)

Fish Scales Pendant / Feb.2008
925 銀
Sterling silver

抽象的魚鱗樣貌，經由不同人的解讀，帶有不同觀感。加上現代流線的存在感，可任意旋轉成喜歡的角度配戴。



蕾絲花想墜鍊-限量一件（僅網路販售)

Lace Fancy Necklace / Jan.2009
925 銀, 緞帶
Sterling silver, Ribbon
Only on Yahoo Auction Shop

將浪漫純白蕾絲花朵的樣貌，與絨布緞帶結合，成為了融合現代風格與時代風華的獨特墜鍊。長度可依緞帶調整。



"Free Will" collection in which I have tried to create jewellery without too many simulations and designs. Jewellery not only can preserve its own shape by a natural and a random way, but also could copy my thoughts in an instant. In this modern world, machines gradually replace humans in many places. In the future, our designs will be decided by considering how to construct an idea or structure that machines cannot replicate. This collection is an attempt at a new progression I would like to undertake. There are still many possibilities and experiments I hope to explore.

Fish Scales Pendant-
This is a pendant with abstract shape. The details of this concept are only in my mind. It could tell different stories for wearer and viewer without words, and bring a meaning or not depending on multiple viewpoints.

Lace Fancy Necklace-
It is a necklace with contemporary shape and ancient elegance style. By wax drawing, I could represent thin lines like lace flowers, which are white and fine.