[don't] Cast Me Away

[don't] Cast Me Away

2013

Graduate project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, instructed by Deganit Stern Schocken.

 The project explores the gap between the preservation of the aged body by society and its natural declining and extinction. The project explores the classic goldsmith field, mechanisms, clasps, wearing methods and the interaction of those with the human body.

The jewelry in the project was designed by observing abandoned and collapsed buildings, scaffoldings and supporting beams: elements that combine the subjects of extinction and coming death with the field of goldsmith.

The jewelry supports, stabilizes and carries structures and space in delicate and minimalistic means. The constructions are made as lined drawing with a minimum of mass and weight. The structures in the jewelry create scaffoldings that hold and carry empty spaces, and memory of a structure without structure.

14k gold, sterling silver, brass, nickel silver, stainless steel.