Keep a distance with me
The project’s goal is to prevent women from sexual harassment through artifacts, to keep distance with threatening strangers. The wearable artifacts can be décoration and hidden weapon. With those weapons, women are no longer weak ones being bullied, they are intelligent soliders and revengers. And Insect’s attractiveness and danger fit the women image. So I decide to apply insect element in work.
This work develops insect elements and women's self-defense tools to help women stay away from sexual harassment and effectively defend themselves.
It is a pair of ladybug shape earrings with a flexible structure. When the ladybug wings pressed, the device will jet from the spout to stimulate the strong smell of gas to repel the enemy and help women escape or fight back.
I started with the body structure of the beetle and made two pieces. One was a brass knuckle that was modified by the beetle shape. I refer to the side of the brass knuckle, which is sharper, dangerous and threatening. The other is a beetle-shaped card which, when infringed upon, can be taken off by a woman and sent to the throat of the offender by a hairpin. Both of which are often worn by women and transformed to make more powerful and defensive.
I started with the body structure of the beetle and made two pieces. One was a brass knuckle that was modified by the beetle shape. I refer to the side of the brass knuckle, which is sharper, dangerous and threatening. The other is a beetle-shaped card which, when infringed upon, can be taken off by a woman and sent to the throat of the offender by a hairpin. Both of which are often worn by women and transformed to make more powerful and defensive.
On the snake-shaped headphone structure, I chose to use the leather cord in the part of the headphone cord, because the leather cord is not easy to break. When women are in danger, they can remove the headset and use the leather rope to hold the aggressor's neck to fight for help.
