Wetlands by Mabel Pena

This wearable piece of jewellery explores humanity’s relationship with the natural world and highlights the vital importance of preserving specialised ecosystems. Created using recycled polythene bags which have been manipulated in different ways to create various textures, the work is a scenographic representation of the wetlands in Latin America. The wetlands play an important role in maintaining biodiversity and flood management, and the necklace documents their struggle to survive due to human impact.