Recently, I was commissioned to design the bridesmaid gifts for the Dagress | O'Brien wedding. Being that the reception was to be held at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden...
beaches and aquatic life became my inspiration.
The objects in each necklace came from either, the Jersey Shore or Pacific Coast.When I started designing the necklaces, I kept thinking of the way small objects become entangled as they wash up on the shore, sandy crab shells with barnacles, bits of a sand dollar, tiny shells... appearing as if they were stuck together by little tendrils of seaweed, that if picked up would fall apart from its delicacy. I wanted to recreate this image somehow in the form of these necklaces, delicate and haphazard, as if they were found on the shore then wrapped with a chain...
It was definitely lovely to actually do the field work -at the beach- needed to collect objects and get visual imagery to work from. I think I will have to do more projects involving natural objects... come to think of it, I have been collecting lots of mosses, branches, twigs, coniferous cones, and lichen from my hikes... wonder where that will take me?
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