Playful Pearl Necklace (2022)
The Playful Pearl Necklaces series takes inspiration from Eva's home environment, in particular from a novelty children’s toy, “ball-in-the-hole”. This work poses questions about the role of playing in children and the progressive vanishing of playing in adult life. This idea is brought into a jewellery format: a pearl necklace and the act of playing with beads. The unconventional way of playing with the beads in the Playful Pearl Necklace seeks to challenge the idea of seriousness in jewellery.
Eva Fernandez-Martos
Nottingham, England