JAPANESE ARCHITECTURES
With my final exam, my aim was to show as many techniques that I learned as I possibly could.
As I was always interested in Asian culture, especially in Japanese, I knew I want to design something inspired by Japan .
While I was researching I came to the conclusion, I want to specialize on architecture with this collection.
I tried to find traditional and modern inspirations as well, however, my time was cut short so I could make only three pieces of jewellry.
In the future I am planning to make additional pieces, based on other types of Japanese buildings.
THE CONCEPT
WABI SABI
わび・さび
the japanese art of finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay.
celebrating crack, crevices and all other marks that time, weather and love leave behind.
,, nothing is complete,
nothing is perfect,
nothing lasts forever ''
While researching I tried to find various types of buildings. It was a hard decision to make, when I had to pick out the types of architectures I want to use, because there are so many beautiful and inspiring ones.
My choice fell on shinto torii gates, so it represents Japanese religiousnes, then modern walls built of slats, which helps people to be near to nature and last but not least, a Japanese woodworking technique called kumiko, it shows how much preciseness and patience an artist needs.
The collection I created has three pieces, one hairpin and two brooches. Japanese culture has a history of hairpins that can be heavy and big because of the women's styled hair that supported the headpiece. The pieces are different in shape and form, however they make a perfect collection together because of the same concept.
The pieces were created by hand using brass, copper, alpaca and cherrywood, I wanted to use natural and biodegradable materials to show nothing lasts forever.