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| ANDREA MELISSA ARIAS , VENEZUELA |
SOURCES – http://melissaarias.com/en/ ,
https://twitter.com/ameliarias .
Born in 1985,
Ciudad Guayana, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela.
THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT -
Jewelry is for me a
way to discover new sensations and get in touch with another part of myself. I
am always surprised of its infinite range of action. It is a way to experiment,
think, breathe, and create. Once I start, I can not stop, I dream about it. The
jewelry allows me to create my own universe, to be free, let me go with the
moment, to be spontaneous and let the pieces rest in my hands, enhancing the
qualities of the material and allowing it to connect its story to
mine.Colouring pencils were my favourite toy as a child, giving me feelings of
pleasure and excitement.
My working process
began by deconstructing the pencils in order to reconstruct them in totally
different shapes and structures. Resin is used as the primary binding element,
thereafter allowing me to give the desired shape. I discovered during this
process the unexpected mix of colours and marks made by the saw blade
resembling the way of drawing on walls, dirty, smudged and faded, like
scribbling outside the lines. I know that I am not the first and only one to
use colour pencils as element for design objects, but my research was to
transform the pencils into a new material at the same time preserving their
function and history. The resulting new forms show clearly the marks of the present
working process and reveal the memories of my childhood.This work represents my
desire to preserve the spontaneous way children act.
ANDREA'S CREATIONS
