ABOUT

Refined arrangement, deconstruct and re-construct are key words to describe my concept of the brief. To give brief summary of project, Material Driven introduced 1 material maker, who is Shahar Livne, and develop a capsule collection using her material in relation.

Basically, Sharhar Livne made new material like stone textured with mixture of used plastics, rocks and dusts. The whole concept for her material is about sustainability and eco-friendly, therefore, I decided to use jesmonite in relation from her material. Jesmonite also has hard/ stone texture, but also is eco-friendly as well.

The idea from Shahar Livne, use of plastic, reminded me of ocean pollution.Through the research, ocean animals are mostly killed by plastic, and endangered animal like seahorse is already losing their habitat. In addition, plastics are used the most by fast-food brands, such as Mcdonald’s, BurgerKing, Starbucks, Dominos, Coca Cola and Pepsi. Beside them, not only fast-food brands were affecting ocean pollution, but also a lot of fashion brands were polluting ocean by colouring denims.

As I needed to create two small accessories and one statement piece, I wanted to give message to people by wearing them. One of the most effective way to tell people how serious ocean pollution is by use of heavy weight from jesmonite. In this way, I created a chain and ear-cuffs fully made out of jesmonite and printed some illustration of seahorse with fossil textured laser etches. For the show piece, I made a long bag made out of used jeans and jesmonite pannels.

Obviously then, all items are quite heavy as I wanted people to feel how ocean pollution is serious.