As Spring arrived and temperatures slightly rose, my sinusitis came back with a vengeance leaving me perennially tired.
I just wish I could get a sort of a makeover, like the one Sara Engberg performed on amber and on herself a while back.
I already mentioned Sara in a previous post about Swedish jewellery designers.
Sara forms with Christina Wemming, the Mori and Mimosa design duo, but apart from being a jewellery designer, she is also involved in other projects that she presents through her own site.
Her main focus is still on jewellery, but she‘s been expanding and also designed product prototypes (check out her cute lamps, which I hope will go into production soon), experimented with graphic art and photography and pursued various artistic projects.
Among the latter there is also an amber project for a Russian-Swedish joint exhibition curated by Åsa Lockner and Anna Livén West at the Stockholm-based Konsthantverkarna Gallery (2008) that, apart from Sara, involved other 9 artists in Sweden and Kaliningrad, Åsa Jungnelius, Albin Karlsson, David Taylor, Björn Leijon, Alexey Chebykin, Elena Gradinarova, Oleg Lystov, Evgeniy Parkhomenko and Ljudmila Shalina Vysotskaya.
The project focused on amber, a supposedly obsolete material with great potential. The artists were given pieces of raw amber and were asked to design with them unique creations. Their work resulted in the exhibition ”AMBER and what to do with it” that showcased the various designs, all inspired by themes as disparate as status, aesthetics, communication and symbolic values.
Sara created a mink boa with ribbons, frills, gold-plated silver and faceted amber, performing a sort of “amber makeover”, transforming it from a craft material to a luxury material by placing it in an extravagant context, cutting it in diamond-like shapes and combining it with luxurious mink fur and precious gold.
The “makeover” theme referred to the process Sara performed on amber, but also to a personal transformation she went through herself, from plain young woman to glamourous vixen (see picture).
Sara is at present thinking of expanding into printed silk scarves with her own pattern designs and I'll be looking forward to seeing the results of her new project. In the meantime, maybe she can think about my personal makeover, which I may need soon : )
PS Did you spot my beloved Mori’s swans in the latest Camera Obscura video?
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