Kate Furman
Jeweller
Published: 29.09.2020
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In 2012, Kate Furman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island with a Master of Fine Art in Jewelry + Metalsmithing. Kate collects things while is wandering in wilderness, seduced by the cast of flora generously littering the ground beneath my feet. Each piece in her series evokes the place where it was found and what the artist was doing there.
Statement
Nature is my greatest inspiration. While in the woods surrounded by the astonishing details of a tree trunk’s swollen scar or the intricate furrows of creatures burrowing beneath its bark, my senses are fully engaged. In my work, I translate this admiration and wonder into jewelry, a format as intimate to the body as the moments I pass in untouched, tranquil wilderness. After gathering detritus from the forest floor, I manipulate, alter and respond to the beauty within branches, bark, and sticks. By tracing and replicating the curves of the human body, my pieces contour and move to it, thereby intertwining and activating each other.I am interested in calling attention to the intersection between people and the environment through ways the two affect each other. As Sigmund Freud describes in Civilization and Its Discontents, humans repress the environment and their animal instinct in order to control nature and live a civilized life. My process responds to this need without taking full authority over the natural materials. Instead, I direct a harmonious dialogue between them, revealing the ways we affect and intersect each other. The resulting forms show a sense of my influence but retain an inherent rawness; a collaboration and language of mark-making develop between us.
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