Another Vision

Jewellery Meets Illustration, exhibition, Ó Galeria, Porto, 2015

gold plated sterling silver, plastic miniature painted with enamel, metal chain

There was an obvious intersection between the illustration and the language of my own work. I'm not used to using someone else's work as a starting point to create a piece of mine, but when this happens, it's inevitable to look at other's work in light of our own work - we end up seeing what we want to see.

I considered the user of the piece of jewelry as the main character of its own frame. As such, I decided to pick up the monocle that appears in the illustration Vision and simplify it a little more, deconstructing it into circles of different diameters (relating to my Orbital Collection) - as if the object had fallen to the ground and, dematerialized, were now mounted as a decorative abstract piece.

Another of the elements that caught my attention in the illustration was the silhouette of the smallest character that seems to be in danger - perhaps influenced by my background, I was reminded of the miniatures that are used in architectural models and couldn't resist to add it to the composition - this little one is also half lost and tries to somehow find his place within a structure whose size seems disproportionate and out of his control. Ultimately, it turns out to be the liaison between a piece of jewelry that could exist by itself and the illustration of Maria Herreros.