Academic tutorial with Alkesh Parmar

• Engage with human body dimensions and behaviour, triggers
• hand-point of contact for handbag and timepiece- experiment with interactions
• Polymorph – capture – hand, grip
• tactile element – experiment with textures
• Sharp, uncomfortable materials against the skin/body

Further research:

• Amber Cordial
• Bernard Shorbinger – Swedish designer – living jewellery

• David Roux Foullet – function

Bubble jewellery – steel wire necklace – diamond wireforms – rotate and dip into soap solution to form holographic momentary bubbles

“More than its economic value, it is the diamond’s emotional value that fascinates me. By transforming fragile soap bubbles into the king of gems I hope to trigger the imagination of the viewer and question notions of eternity, beauty and material value.” – David Roux Fouillet.

Diamond Shot – unique means of customer participation in creation of pieces – celebration of the making process – eternal memory – emotional jewellery

• Rachna Gharodia – weaving – object and materials from the Thames

Weaving from waste, Tamesis – artful integration of found material in woven tapestries

Resources for materials:

• East London – lampwork (handle)
• Columbia flower market (ivy)
• Clarkenwell watch repair shops (watch movement gears-add patina)