Beige is a monochrome contemporary jewellery online exhibition. The exhibition represents the jewellers' relationship to the colour beige whether it is soothing, boring, attention-seeking, camouflaged, positive or negative.
The piece I feel connected to is a Brooch by Maja Røhl called A Sea of Plastic as seen in figure 1. The brooch is made from plastic sheet and vegetable seeds that was inspired by coral reefs and seabed flora. To me, the plastic sheets resemble Fungia Coral (Fig. 2) but due to the pattern being three-dimensional it also looks like mountain ranges. The vegetable seed resembles beach sand as it is similar in colour but it also has the grainy texture just larger in scale.
In Europe, most vegetables are produced in large plastic greenhouses. The greenhouses are eventually broke down and the plastic ends up on the bottom of rivers which lead into the Mediterranean Sea over time the plastic turned a beige colour and becomes part of the natural ecosystem. The plastic is obviously not organic but the vegetable seeds are and the plastic is needed to help the seeds grow. It is ironic as the plastic brings life to the plants and death to the sea, plastic pollution is known mostly for destroying oceanic ecosystems.
I connect with this because in nature where there is life there is death, the only difference is the plastic pollution can be avoided altogether. And in my family we have had death (my dog) and in the next few days we will have life (my nephew).
I really love this quote from Taro Mizushima also from the beige exhibition, "Capturing the essence found in nature I think that's the purpose of making work."
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| Figure 1 Maja Røhl- A Sea of Plastic http://www.beige.one/maja-roehl |
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| Figure 2 Fungia Coral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungia |
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