Vallecula

Language has been a constant source of inspiration in my practice. This conceptual brooch explores an expression of the poetic relationship between speakers and listeners. The fleshy hues and organic textures and shapes create allusion to linguistic and aural anatomy integral to speech and hearing. Sounds produced by means of the pulmonic airstream are represented by a resin form reminiscent of the lungs, which intertwines and emerges from a hollow, silver-rimmed copper spiral inspired by the cochlea of the inner ear, creating reference to human conversation. As light passes through the transparent and vibrant resin, its colour scintillates off the planished copper helix from which it emerges. The undulating silhouettes of the two materials complement each other, bound together through repetition of silver pins.

Argentii

Countless paper mock-ups and a collection of copper prototypes directed the original pattern for these earrings, cut from a flat piece of silver. Applying thousands of hammer strokes, I balanced the metal’s malleability and tensility to slowly anticlastically raise the silver sheet into hollow, elegant botanical forms. Gold and resin accents add vibrancy and colour to these graceful, light-weight earrings.

Through this series of one-of-a-kind rings, I endeavoured to create pieces that could spark conversations with the use of scale and eye-catching colour, but also allude to conversations themselves, staying true to my linguistic inspiration. The mirror-polished dynamic hollow forms of each ring contain textured, fleshy resin and are entwined in tapered silver wires that flow around each piece to unify its design and make it wearable. 

Parlance

Lingo II

Lingo