china white

The JC Report says that porcelain jewelry is in. Given what I've seen of porcelain jewelry in the past, this was unexciting news, but since what I do love most is someone reinterpreting a material and using it in a completely new way, there has to be some hope for legitimately cool porcelain baubles. The only example that I have encountered as of yet is a project called Urban Cast Away that Dror Benshetrit did for the Construkt/Marithe+Francoise Girbaud shop three years ago. Fairly recently some of the pieces were still available for purchase, but no longer. Weak. Not that I could have managed to wear one without shattering it, but still.

If I remember correctly, the forms are made by dipping pieces of vintage fur into porcelain and then firing them. I love the shapes they create, like those high-speed photos of a drop of milk splashing into a puddle. They also remind me of the fragile curves of ruffled nudibranchs.

In any event, I love the organic forms created in the process, and I love that if cracked open they'd reveal tufts of aging fox fur. There's something mildly creepy about them, as they do resemble, in the broadest sense, human teeth. I have no problem with wearing human teeth, as the prospect of having my wisdom teeth pulled was made brighter by the thought of what I could turn the uprooted teeth into. I feel like they would make good cufflinks, but I'm just going to drill a hole through one and string it on a chain. I actually wore a plastic dentures charm to a denim-on-denim/accessories party on Friday, allegedly from the 70s, that I bought at a vintage store in high school. And, even more coincidentally, today as I was reading The Swindler for one of my classes, I noticed that one of the characters is in possession of a rosary made of dead men's teeth. Although hers is for witch-purposes rather than a sartorial choice. Needless to say I am intrigued by the idea.

This last piece reminds me of a bird or animal skull, which I rather like. Eventually I'll do a post on Skulls That Don't Suck, but I have yet to come upon sufficient fodder for it.