foam by Danni Schwaag
September 30, 2022 - November 13, 2022

 

foam

jewelry objects

When i search for mother-of-pearl on the internet for my work, i enter words like mother-of-pearl shell, seashell, or pearl oyster into the search engine. the results then show mother-of-pearl shells as decorative objects, e.g. for soap. (sometimes also for jewellery) this is how i got the idea to work the soap like the mother of pearl. i carefully begin to grind and mill the soft material. i place the mother-of-pearl bowl and the soap opposite each other and enhance the soap bar by working out the pearly haptics. then after a few hand washes the “pearls” are washed away. during earlier travels i took the small hand soaps from the hotels and collected them. then came corona, the end of travelling and the beginning of a lot of hand washing. that’s how the soap became a “cult object” for me. during munich jewellery week 2020 i offered it in the show at gallery door as “pay what you can”, so everyone could wash their hands with a foamy-pearly unique piece. the pearl shell that once functioned as a “soap dish” and “decorative object” is now elaborated with a pearly feel, pearls which originally grow inside the shell. now wearable as a necklace, it lies on the chest like an amulet. the surface structures look astonishingly similar, but the materiality with its characteristics is completely opposite.

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