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Contemporary art jewellery is full of symbolic content. Xiaodie Hu uses a material – soluble bath bombs – to suggest anxiety and the disappearance of anxiety, creating a process of transformation. When a part of the necklace is gone, implying trouble has been resolved, and a silver necklace will be left, which is a metaphor for the precious memories left after the bad emotions have passed.