Karen Vanmol
Jeweller
Published: 16.01.2019
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I always startfrom my sources of inspiration, with these eyes I look around me. I show viewers how I look at things around me. Next to that I make jewellery and I like to use my tools and try out how materials reacts to them. Eventually I work with materials, and that provides an additional factor. I find out the properties they possess and how I can edit them and this will count in the final result. Some techniques I use are common and you can find them in your house.Naturally I tend to work clean and delineated, here I try against it by for example damaging materials. It gets me out of my comfort zone and it bothers me, but at the same time I want to do it.
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AKA #ISeeFaces
Paradolia takes place in the psyche and makes us see familiar things in random shapes. The human mind always has the desire to be able to name things and thus creates this illusion. Our brains are so eager to recognize patterns and correlations they see them where there are none. Just like children see a castle in the sky.
In this work I look for the tension by disturbing the symmetry. How far can you go, in choosing (or letting coincidence happen) shapes, disturbing repetition or mixing colors. I choose to make my work by hand and not make it absolutely symmetrical by using computer-controlled programs.
In the shapes I am not looking for recognizability , that comes automatically. A few fixed conditions are the dimensions, they come from the materials and their limitations. The shapes, used them earlier for my work, that is why some shapes return. I don't want to have much residual material since a lot of laminates I use are old and thereby very limited in quantity.
Under Construction- Fading Landscape- Evolving Habitat- Cultivate
As in my earlier work, I find my inspiration in architecture and nature. Except that everything continues to evolve and change. A city without a little nature works claustrophobic for me, but a nature landscape with no sign of humanity is too quiet for me. Protecting or imitating nature, the use of natural materials in architecture, the restoring of a road surface, accidental strong shapes on a construction site, these things I find very interesting.
On my way through town, I hunt and collect. I always encounter interesting images that I use as an inspiration. In addition, there is a certain choice of materials and colors, these are strongly influenced by memories. For example the necklaces, furniture in different colors, certain constructions. I make my story and the viewer projects its own story on top of mine.
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