Monday, February 25, 2008

Jivan Astfalck

Necklace: Vanitas 2004
silver electroformed on plastics, silk, organic materials and raffiavanitas /’vanita:s/ · n. a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.- origin L., lit. ‘vanity’.vanity · n. (pl.-ies) excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appear

Necklace: On Memory and Loss - ChickenBones 2001
fine-gold and artificial pearls, chicken bones


silver set carving of a mermaid, dyed coral, possibly Chinese - burned into book.2003
book: ŒDesire in Language‚ by Julia Kristeva, Columbia University Press


Images via klimt02.net

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