As seen in previous posts, fabrics can be used in wonderful ways and can be employed to create striking three-dimensional designs and constructions.
Korean jewelry designer Jounghye Park, born in Seoul where she now runs a studio, has been developing for quite a few years extremely light pieces, including brooches and necklaces, inspired by nature and plants in particular, made with fibers and metals. Some of her pieces move, for example, from the shape of the Venus Flytrap, probably the most famous carnivorous plant.
Covid-19 prompted her to look at plants from a different perspective and in particular consider the spiral structures found in nature to hint at the fluidity of living things, the liquidity of creatures and the circularity of the ecosystem.
But there is another message behind these new designs that were exhibited in September during the "Green Environment" exhibition at the Ahwon Gallery in Seoul - an opportunity to question the way to recover connectivity with the nature and coexist as a part of nature.
The making of these pieces is time-consuming: the designer makes small hand-dyed silk units that resemble leaves, berries or stems, and then combines them all together in pieces that call to mind garlands or dense agglomerations of lichens or, in some cases, they look as if they were made with the thick and fleshy leaves of succulent plants. The results are intriguing and the designer's Instagram page provides us with great insights on the process behind these pieces.
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