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My graduation work from last year, inspired by the decay of man-made things and including a research of how to use Japanese lacquer (urushi) on metal. I posed myself the task to make a "wearable sculpture", drawing heavily from the visuals of a long abandoned fish packing plant in Djupavík, Iceland, which I visited in the summer of 2010 and which never quite left my mind after that. I wanted to capture the morbidly fascinating visuals of something falling apart and being turned back into a part of the natural environment, dwelling on thoughts of how everything in this world is interwoven, how without death there can be no life.

For more on the work itself feel free to have a look at the full documentation at publications.theseus.fi/handle…

Made from bronze, silver and urushi (japanese lacquer)

Photography by Viivi Huuska(viivihuuska.com/#!/)

closeup: thunderssilence.deviantart.com…

and another picture: thunderssilence.deviantart.com…

Description
My graduation work from last year, inspired by the decay of man-made things and including a research of how to use Japanese lacquer (urushi) on metal. I posed myself the task to make a "wearable sculpture", drawing heavily from the visuals of a long abandoned fish packing plant in Djupavík, Iceland, which I visited in the summer of 2010 and which never quite left my mind after that. I wanted to capture the morbidly fascinating visuals of something falling apart and being turned back into a part of the natural environment, dwelling on thoughts of how everything in this world is interwoven, how without death there can be no life.

For more on the work itself feel free to have a look at the full documentation at publications.theseus.fi/handle…

Made from bronze, silver and urushi (japanese lacquer)

Photography by Viivi Huuska(viivihuuska.com/#!/)

closeup: thunderssilence.deviantart.com…

and another picture: thunderssilence.deviantart.com…