Urban Cast-Away

The limits of what we define as jewelry are slipping away quickly. Bodily adornments are shifting toward the amalgous, wide-open field of “whatever you can manage to stick to yourself”. Tattoos, tiny Swarovski crystals, even porcelain-dipped fur scraps. Created by Dror Benshetrit, who also created the Pick Chair, the Urban Cast-Away line is a series of one-of-a-kind sculptural jewelry pieces created for Girbaud’s Construkt.

Each piece is made from a scrap of second-hand fur dipped in porcelain, “giving the fur a continuous life and new appearance”. Ignoring the obvious PETA moment brought to question by the use of fur, and I’m hoping that “second-hand” means the scraps were scavenged from existing sources, these pieces create a timeless moment of stillness in their liquid medium. They look a lot flowing coral, or perhaps spilled milk caught mid-fall. Either way, they definitely redefine what we tend to think of as “jewelry” today.