Chain :
Empowering Chemotherapy Patients Facing Hair Loss
| Designed by : | Jeraldine Low |
Under the Supervision of Associate Professor Christophe Gaubert.
Chain empowers female chemotherapy patients, offering them the service to collect and transform their hair, while receiving the support of other survivors. The jewellery is worn as a symbol of strength while preserving elements of femininity, identity and familiarity from hair. Connected with a piece from a survivor, Chain will be passed on to empower other patients when one achieves remission.
Prior to chemotherapy, patients receive this kit along with a gift of support from a fellow survivor.
Patients can collect and transform their hair into Chain, customised to their liking.
Chain is connected with a piece from a survivor.
A myriad of methods were explored to manipulate hair into jewellery, including heating, soldering, fusing with glass, bleaching and casting with resin. Casting into a block with resin and colourant, followed by CNC cutting, was finally chosen to achieve scalability, abstraction, personalisation and modularity.
