Jewellery | Like Wearing A Love Letter Series
In the ‘Like Wearing a Love Letter’ series I wanted to make jewellery that was like a love letter. Like wearing a daydream, a memory or a thought of love. Pieces are formed of collections of small phrases and words that layer to build narratives. Little stories of love that are: sincere, ironic, deep, passionate, conflicted, uncertain, comfortable, simple, adoring, platonic and complicated.
Made of milky polycarbonate and clear Mylar they are cloudy dreamy forms like thoughts from the air; possibly a permanent record of a fleeting thought, a declaration of a permanent bond or an artefact of a love no more. Work in this series is constructed from hand written and carved words on plastic petals and strips which are sewn and crocheted into layered, cloudy and fluttery forms. 

"I've loved you since the moment I met you" and "I want to
be your wife always"  (2006) polycarbonate, thread, archival 
ink and resin

 

"You See Me" (2007) polycarbonate, sterling silver, thread, 
archival ink and resin

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"I've loved you since the moment I met you" and "I want to
be your wife always"  (2006) detail polycarbonate, thread, 
archival ink and resin

 

"You See Me" (2007) detail, polycarbonate, sterling silver, 
thread, archival ink and resin
All Images and Works ©2006 Colleen Baran