Ornament Magazine

VOL38.1 2015

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26 ORNAMENT 38.1.2015 that endeavor, concluding that wood simply was not materially suited to withstanding the kinds of stresses exerted on small, thin bands. He has also produced a series of necklaces inspired by Norwegian artist Liv BlÄvarp's masterful use of wood in her vibrant, ribbed neckpieces, though given to a quieter, more intimate aesthetic through beads and podlike pendants of ebony or African blackwood inlaid with silver wire. The majority of DiCaprio's wearable wooden art has, however, been earrings and brooches. Initially conceived as if they were "extensions of the body coming through your clothes" the earliest brooches were ebony half domes, some with narrow mouthlike openings studded with scores of tiny wire teeth. Elongate examples rising to smooth ridges at their axes suggested the dorsal regions of logging whales barely breaking the plane of an ocean. "It would take a collector to wear them, DANIEL DICAPRIO. Photograph by Marion DiCaprio. PROCESS SHOT OF NEW GROWTH BROOCH of holly with micro-carving gouges, dimension of finished brooch, 7.6 centimeters, 2014. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, studio space at Cary Street Studios, 2014.

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