Video: Ornaments from dead people. Churchyard Line Jewelry Series by Columbine Phoenix
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
And who would have thought that a studio with such a sweet and sunny name Sunspot Designs specializes in making jewelry so dark! And that the author of these most gloomy jewelry is an aged lady, designer Columbine Phoenixwho has devoted her whole life to working with jewelry. The whole truth about what kind of jewelry these are, and why they should not be shown to impressionable citizens, children and true believers, is revealed exactly when the name of the series of these jewelry sounds - Churchyard line, which translates as " Cemetery". We can say that the materials for earrings and pendants, pendants and necklaces Madame Columbine takes to the cemetery, since they are made of human bones. Yes, these small bones are indeed human remains. Let them be carefully processed and decorated, but still …
Columbine Phoenix made the first jewelry when she was very little. True, the material for the bracelet was not bones at all, but threads, beads and colored laces. The result is something hippies wear - colorful and fun. Since then, Columbine has woven and embroidered numerous "friendship bracelets", pendants, headbands, made necklaces from shells and beads, feathers and ribbons. However, after a few years, she realized that these "childish" resources had exhausted themselves, and it was time to move on to the next level of skill, and then a friend working in medical school said that they had a whole pile of small bones for sale in the anatomical museum that she could buy for your work. Seeing the "product", the artist realized that it was "love at first sight", and human bones are very similar to ivory, only "homegrown". This is how a collection of jewelry from the Churchyard Line series was born.
Columbine Phoenix frames the processed and polished bones in silver, decorates with precious stones and turns into necklaces, pendants, earrings and bracelets, which she herself wears with pleasure, and sells to those who prefer non-standard and informal not only in accessories and appearance, but also choose the same lifestyle. No, these decorations do not propagate death at all. Rather, on the contrary, they demonstrate that life is much better than death. At least this way you can be sure that all the bones are with you. More details of the jewelry from the Churchyard Line series can be found on the website of the Sunspot Designs studio.
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