Vanitas
Vanitas series references traditional themes found in that genre of still life painting. The brooches juxtapose food waste (fruit and vegetable peel) with the flesh of the human body, aiming to draw attention to our relationship with food and its consumption. This series seeks to remind the wearer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures in its defamiliarisation of everyday organic substances through the waste food materials’ re-presentation as jewellery.
Rachael Colley
Sheffield, England
Brooch; denatured apple peel, balsa wood, stainless steel
Brooches; denatured apple peel, balsa wood, silver findings, stainless steel
Brooches; denatured beetroot peel, balsa wood, stainless steel