Objet Trouvé Jewellery

Anything can be jewellery.

I’ve always been a sucker for functionality and ability to reuse things [not the least fashion wise]. It came naturally therefore when I started crafting jewellery and accessories with anything with a hole, or a ribbon, or what I could sew onto other pieces of textiles. The idea and realising of the fact that I can create, wear and enjoy a new thing out of something useless or worthless always gave me – and still does – the purest joy. My little demiurge moment if you like. Later I learnt to my astonishment that the ‘Found Object’ or ‘Objet Trouvé’ is a legit thing in the contemporary art world. It was another one of those light bulb moments when you start to feel the realness of existential connection between things, minds, people and ideas: like, yes! you can really do it, and you’re not alone.

While in the academic art history this concept is associated more with readymades – having Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as a prime illustration – and the idea of challenging the image and perception o…