Breana Ferrara

Statement

In making adornment, my interest lies in forms and subjects that our society condemns as taboo or unsettling, while simultaneously tending to obsess over and indulge in those same things. Sagging, corpulent, oozing, excessive forms have always served as my fascination and inspiration. The jewelry I create is intended to feel raw, stimulating and vulnerable to the wearer’s senses. I make experiences laden with sensual and tactile pleasure and I explore the line between titillating and unnerving, beautiful and unsightly, delicious and disgusting. My methodology is present in acts of image collecting, reflective writing, and preposterously time-consuming processes.

My adornment is a means of unapologetic being and rebelling against a culture that deems pleasures as “guilty” and being yourself as being “too much”. It is loud and vulnerable without fear or embarrassment. My work appreciates the absolute pleasure in excessiveness and indulgence, because I find joy and belonging in excessive process and form. The work I create is an act of being noticed, of being “too much”, of being emotional and through it all— having an innate sense of humor and humanity.

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