Yanzhu Lin (b.1996, China) is a jewelry artist based in Antwerp. Before moving to Antwerp, she lived in Shanghai for six years, where she earned a degree in engineering and studied gemology at GIA. Her scientific interest shapes her perspective through systems, structures, and variables, leading her to teach herself parametric design. Rather than pursuing fixed forms, she builds controllable generative systems in which small parameter shifts result in diverse outcomes—constant rules, varied results. Algorithm-Aided Design (AAD), 3D printing, and the symbolism, materials, and techniques of traditional jewelry form the raw material of her “alchemy.”

Her practice moves between the digital and traditional, the artificial and natural, and between machine production and handcraft. Through wearable forms, she explores human-machine collaboration and investigates the irreplaceable qualities of human experience.

Yanzhu Lin’s work combines science, technology, and traditional jewelry materials and metalsmithing. She approaches design as a kind of “alchemy,” experimenting with how these elements interact to generate unexpected forms and experiences. Influenced by science and sci-fi, she is drawn to questions of reality and the imaginative possibilities of the future. As contemporary life becomes increasingly digitized, she closely observes technological developments as reflections of our times, while considering the irreplaceable qualities of human creativity.

Yanzhu has taught herself parametric design, creating programs that generate diverse 3D models through subtle changes in parameters. This algorithm-aided approach encourages her to think critically about constants and variables in the creative process, merging technology and personal expression. Through her work, she investigates how precision and control can coexist with feelings, memory, and emotion, exploring the tension between system and experience, logic and humanity.