Liana Pattihis
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Published: 28.02.2025
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The method I follow to fuse enamels on a movable base like chain, has brought about an innovative way of creating with the medium. By applying the enamel freely but purposefully, the material is allowed not only to decorate a piece, but to be instrumental in its creation, its appearance and its function.———
The processes Liana uses in making her jewellery are ones of building and burying...The natural quality of the surface gives a feel of a much earlier age, yet buried under the enamel are anonymous, potentially unattractive, silver chains of this age of mass production. The point of delight is not only that unique, colourful and exciting pieces of jewellery are created, but that the rules of enamelling have been broken and rewritten so successfully.
/ Caroline Broadhead August 2010
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Body and Soul
My latest body of work comprises two very different discarded materials, deflated balloons and fragments of porcelain. Two seemingly unrelated materials and objects, which share the same intolerance to force and pressure. The balloon bursts if you blow it up too much, the porcelain breaks if excessive force is exerted to it.
We as humans, experience all sorts of pressures in life, some of us completely break up and deflate under pressure, some give it their all, their body and soul and just pick up the broken pieces, regenerate, transform, heal and in the process become stronger.
The pieces in this series embrace the fragility of the materials used and by joining them together, healing their scars and transforming them into wearable pieces full of juxtaposing textures and surfaces.
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Chained Interpretations … An on-going study
In a world revolving around social media, it is hard to imagine a day go by without our daily dose of virtual interaction. An intricate part of this process, is further facilitated by the sharing of images, which offer a glimpse into the inspirations and interests of our online ‘friends’.
The collection is inspired by online sources and found images depicting flora and fauna specifically in wooded areas, which I find mysterious and intriguing. As with previous work from this series, images are chosen for their visual composition or specific geometrical aesthetic elements and are given a three dimensional ‘chained interpretation’, thus converting them into wearable pieces of jewellery.
Each enamel colour is fused and fired on the chain separately and the piece is constructed afterwards from the previously enamelled chain. Emphasis is given in the building-up and layering of the chains This allows the piece to evolve, with the various types of chain and colours mixing and intertwining, poetically responding to the images as if they were ‘still lives ’, translating them into an impressionistic pixelated relief of textured 3dimensional layers.
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Chained Interpretations… Curious Jewellery and Objects
Images depicting flora and fauna have been a rich source of inspiration for me. Adding objects to this series has been a natural progression. Using my unwanted mass- produced silver wedding gifts, I aspire to create a collection of curious, wearable pieces and decorative objects by giving the original pieces a unique new identity and function.
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To mend my broken heart
To mend my broken heart, is my latest collection of jewellery and objects inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. Replacing the lacquer and powder dust used in the traditional method, with epoxy and silver or gold chain, the aim is to embrace the damaged and the imperfect by highlighting the cracks and missing pieces with the chain. The mended flaws become part of the design, offering the object a new identity. Healing the scars of the flawed and the unwanted, the object becomes purposeful and desirable again
Drawn to the philosophical interpretation of Kintsugi, that the cracks and seams are merely a symbol of an event that happened in the life of the object, rather than the cause of its destruction, the pieces are reborn, granting the object a lease of a new life. Using a selection of unwanted and damaged wedding gifts and objects collected over the years, a collection of curious, wearable pieces and decorative objects is created, whilst giving the original pieces a unique new identity and function.
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Scentimental
Drawn to the art of Yobitsugi, where pieces from one broken object are used to mend another and the definition of Alchemy as the mysterious magical process of transformation, this body of work comprises wearable vessels, created by the amalgamation of discarded broken glass and porcelain which conceal a perfume vial.
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From the series Scentimental / White
In many cultures the colour white is associated with purity and innocence, whilst in others, it symbolises death and the afterlife. A colour for purity and joy on the one hand, of death and mourning on the other. White represents all things holy and divine in both life and death and signifies surrender and peace.
The work in this series comprises 5 brooches with predominantly white backgrounds. Their fragments imply a past fragile existence, resulting in destruction and incoherence, that now reconstructed and reconstituted, symbolise unity coherence and rebirth. As human beings, our cultural differences and religious beliefs are the main reasons for not seeing eye to eye, resulting in hatred, and devastation. In a world where our humanity is challenged daily by the ravages of war and discrimination, our ability as humans to see and recognise that we are all fragments of the very same fragile and vulnerable world, the only way forward, is to coexist in harmony and work together for a life of unity strength and prosperity.
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