GROWTH SERIES
“Growth” brooches and necklaces may be regarded as attractive wearable pieces with colorful surfaces and fun plastic vegetation budding out of them. The same jewelry pieces, however, can suggest unease through the allusion to the unseen, unfamiliar and menacing growths hiding within the body and the environment. Combining wool and leather—an outgrowth of a living animal—with enameled surfaces and plastic heightens the ambiguity between the natural and the artificial.
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