Re-Cover by Daniella Saraya
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Daniella Saraya graduated at the Jewelry Department - Shenkar College of engineering and design, and she currently finished the Master’s Degree. The personal and emotional character of her works, places them in the area between design and art. Through questions borrowed from the human psychology she loves to explore and study the boundaries of jewelry’s function and essence writes Ilaria Ruggiero.
The Re-Cover collection was first launched on 2013 as a result of a personal deep understanding and awareness on how emotional feelings and physical materials equally behaves in their processes and transformation from one status to another.
Daniella uses jewelry and both materials characteristics and technique as a transfer for her inner self, emotionally driven like in a process of remembrance, as a way of recalling moments she lived before, the experiences she accumulated that led to her becoming a person.
While searching for human characteristics she explores various materials, including wood, plastic and metals, each one of them featuring a different and broad spectrum of possibilities, feelings and languages. She focused her research on the examination of the various possible manipulation of different materials and how to endow one material with the characteristics of another, experimenting until the point where differences match. She aims at learning the technique in depth so that she can have maximum control over the unplanned process.
The favourite technique of hiding and revealing expresses the significance and meaning of the entire collection by first planning the internal layers, the skeleton, which combined metals and raw stones hidden in the material, and then revealing them by various ways of removal. The same attitude, alternatively hiding and revealing, belongs to human nature. In fact, over the time, a person goes through contradictory processes wherein they accumulate layers and peel them off. A varying exposure of the surface creates patterns of behaviour and habits; injury or removal create a space and reveal the earlier layers.
The use of epoxy gives her creations the appearance and poetics that make them unique and internationally recognizable. Additionally, the use of natural materials, the predominance of white color as well as the wild shapes and the contrast between splendor and candor, immediately connect her pieces to organic creatures, belonging to the body as a spiritual extension.
Devoted to exploring the limits of technical experimentation, she goes further and further, achieving audacious outcomes and globally contributing to the advancement of research for the whole field.
Image Credit
Re- Cover Collection
2013
Material: Brass, silver, quartz crystals, epoxy, marble powder, wood, paint
Technique: combined Technique
Photo with models: Photographer Marina Moshkovich
About the Contributing Writer
Ilaria Ruggiero is a cultural manager and curator working in the field of contemporary art. She is the founder of Adornment - Curating Contemporary Art Jewelry, a curatorial integrated project dedicated to contemporary art jewelry. It aims to develop the knowledge and consciousness of contemporary jewelry as artistic discipline and as ground search for technique, aesthetics, and philosophy.
www.adornment-jewelry.com
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