𝕺𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝕮𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 explores ornament and ugly design, highlighting how both manipulate aesthetics in peculiar ways. While ornament usually involves decorative or detailed elements that embellish an object, ugly design seeks to break with conventional standards of beauty and create something that defies traditional aesthetic standards. I am intrigued by the idea of ugly design as a kind of anti-ornament, where the ugly or unusual becomes an integral part of the design.

𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖆 /chest piece

Piece of chest protection that combines a rhomboid geometric base with vegetal forms reminiscent of flowers and leaves in bronze.
fused to a 4.5 meter rope, which allows for a tight Japanese bondage style (kinbaku) tie.

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Pieza de protección pectoral que combina una base geométrica romboidal con formas vegetales que evocan flores y hojas en bronce fundido con una cuerda de 4,5 metros, que permite un amarre apretado al estilo bondage japonés (kinbaku).

𝕬𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕴𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 /signet ring

A small insignia of personal alliance with the possibility of transmuting the imperfect of life into the sphere of the sacred.

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Una pequeña insignia de alianza personal con la posibilidad de transmutar lo imperfecto de la vida en la esfera de lo sagrado.

𝕬𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖒 / pocket piece

Medieval beliefs about the magical properties of gems inspired this mysterious object decorated with carnelians and a rose quartz, to be worn close to the body for apotropaic purposes suspended from a tourbillon chain.

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Las creencias medievales sobre las propiedades mágicas de las gemas inspiraron este misterioso objeto decorado con cornalinas y un cuarzo rosa, para llevarlo cerca del cuerpo con fines apotropaicos colgado de una cadena de tourbillon.

𝖘𝖑𝖚𝖌 / pin

"The ugly repels the evil impulse." According to medieval lore, the garnet warns its owner of approaching danger and trouble by changing color. This power is doubled because both garnets and a black onyx are set in a slug, a monstrous mollusk that crawls and carries all that is evil.

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“Lo feo repele el impulso maligno.” Según la historia medieval, el granate advierte a su dueño de la proximidad de peligros y problemas cambiando de color. Este poder se duplica porque ambos granates, y un ónice negro, están engastados en una babosa, un monstruoso molusco que se arrastra y conlleva todo lo malo.

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"Ornament is not a luxury, but in a certain state of mind, an absolute necessity."



The 8 pieces that make up my Jewelry School Final Project 𝕺𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝕮𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 are the result of an aesthetic and historical research that follows the ornament through time and observes its use in different contexts.

2024

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My goal is to create my own ornamental grammar of symbols based on the dynamic between ornament and anti ornament, preciousness and ugliness, finding authenticity and honest expression, even if it is messy or uncomfortable to look at.

𝕱𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖘𝖞𝖒𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖘 /Late Renaissance necklace

This piece responds to a neo-baroque spirit, it is a multiplicity of languages, a miscellany of forms, emotions and gestures. A collection of meaningless personal symbols that come together through simple knots in this magical emblem of the manifestation of self.

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Esta pieza responde a un espíritu neobarroco, es una multiplicidad de lenguajes, una miscelánea de formas, emociones y gestos. Una colección de símbolos personales sinsentido que se unen a través de sencillos nudos en este emblema mágico de la manifestación de uno mismo.

𝕷'𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖔 /renaissance pendant

Inspired by one of the most popular types of jewellry since the late 14th century, this pendant features ornaments and volutes in metal, as well as the inclusion of set stones and a boss of pearls.

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Inspirado en uno de los tipos de joyería más populares desde finales del siglo XIV, este colgante presenta adornos y volutas en metal, así como la inclusión de piedras engastadas y un pinjante de perlas.

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖘 / baroque sculpture
ring and base

With their metallic sacredness and grotesque morphology, this heavy signet ring grows meaningless, perhaps to demostrate excessive wealth and status. With a pearl and garnet set for purely decorative purposes and to celebrate the beauty of our infinite capacity to err.

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Con su sacralidad metálica y su morfología grotesca, este pesado anillo de sello crece sin sentido, quizá para demostrar una riqueza y un estatus que no existen. Con una perla y un granate engastados con fines puramente decorativos y para celebrar la belleza de nuestra infinita capacidad de errar.

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖑𝖚𝖌'𝖘 𝖘𝖑𝖎𝖒𝖊 / ring and base

This piece evokes the precious game of a slug that gently elaborates with its slime a small vermiculated cage that serves as a territory and a natural occurrence.

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Esta pieza evoca el juego precioso de una babosa que suavemente elabora con su baba una pequeña jaula vermiculada que sirve como territorio y como ocurrencia natural.