BLUE CHALLENGE

The colour BLUE is most people’s favourite colour. It is so absolutely NOT mine.

To make these pieces was challenging.

Using a for me new technique: crocheting.

I am working in the space between clothes and jewellery.

Can I make jewellery out of 2’nd hand clothes?

By deconstructing, taking away its function and adding a jewellery element in the form of gold paint.

Thereby transforming them into jewellery?

The ’Blue Challenge’ pieces are made of some blue donations: men’s shirts.

They are cut into long shreds, then crochet into hooks.

I usually work with recognizable everyday objects. By cutting the clothes into shreds however

the apparent reference to clothes is gone.

With this technique I am now able to use every last bit of a shirt for my jewellery pieces.

I used blue as a concept. My starting point: what do I associate with the colour blue

.Blue Challenge - Royal

In the old days blue was the most expensive, most valuable colour to make.

For me, the Royal Family, is fairytale like and bigger than myself, which makes it very valuable for me.

I chose GOLD in the form of paint to represent that together with the blue.

Some golden hooks are washed, that’s part of the fairytale.

The pieces are made out of second hand men’s shirts - cut into shreds and crochet. One piece has gold painted hooks, some are washed afterwards.