Jiro Kamata

HOLON

March 6 – April 4, 2021

Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata jewelry, schmuck, camera lens, glass
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata
Jiro Kamata, jewelry, camera lens, glass, silver, German, Japanese Design
Jiro Kamata ring, camera lens, silver, Schmuck, jewelry

Press Release

HOLON


an ancient Greek word meaning whole.


In “The Ghost in the Machine” , a philosophical book by Arthur Koestler that greatly influenced the anime “Ghost in the Shell”, Holon was a concept proposing that the whole and the individual parts exist simultaneously.


In 2008, I created Momentopia using old camera lenses, and have since that time, used them together with a variety of materials to continue on the classic theme of jewelry, light and reflection- topics I have been researching since before my graduation thesis (2006), and each new series explores the subject from a different angle, and the elements of each series are connected to those that came before.

 

 

 

 

In my latest work, Holon, the camera lenses are embellished with a PVD coating of various colors. Through the shapes of the concave and convex lenses, the color-coated mirror surfaces on the opposite sides of each lens reflect and react to each other, creating a unique illusion of depth, and a three-dimensional hologram effect in an ever-changing pattern of reflection and color.


Holon is a new body of work, but also a continuation of 20 years of development. These lenses not only reflect our reality, but they may also change our perception.

 

Jiro Kamata