Accessories and jewellery can be fascinating objects, so mesmerising at times that quite often the boundaries between art and fashion blur and artists try their hand at creating wearable pieces.
Artist Ida Badal recently recreated for example retooled watches and necklaces to accompany her solo show "Pothole", opening at the end of the week at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, a not-for-profit local organization preserving Long Island's past.
The show will feature her sculptural artifacts and paintings where she reflects on the theme of erosion in both the personal and societal realm. Priced around $55, Badal's pieces will be available from the Bellpot exhibition, but they can also be bought online from her website. 
What they look like? Well, the theme of time permeates the wearable pieces: the faces of vintage watches have been removed and filled with sand, so that the pieces were transformed into hourglasses; while her necklaces consist of intravenous tubing filled with sand, sifted iron ore (or tumeric), materials she collected while on a residency in Joshua Tree.
Interestingly enough the artist's necklaces seem to be based around an idea I launched on Irenebrination in 2010, with a post entitled "Wearing Your Earth Around Your Neck". In that post I suggested readers to make necklaces with the see-through PVC plastic tubes of the kind used for aerosol therapy nebulizers and fill them with sand or tiny rocks (it could have been an idea for a holiday memento).
Am I accusing her of copying me? Well, I don't have the time and money to sue anybody at the moment (and in these cases lawyers usually talk about "coincidences"), and I like to think that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness," as Oscar Wilde would say. But if you like the idea, well, fashion your own sand/rock plastic tube necklace by following the instructions I gave in that post and save $55.
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