Mari Ishikawa

Like... WATER, Mari Ishikawa sees a parallel world through her everyday life and translates it into jewelry. “We can’t see anything unless we try. Discovery begins with the sense of sight.” Water is the source of life and the symbol of the life cycle. There is nothing more fluid and at the same time as powerful and strong as water. Necklaces and brooches that shape it are made using materials and techniques that have already characterized the artist’s work—oxidized silver, silk, twines, knots, modeling of metals using plants and, in this case, flowers. In these works, the plants melted in silver are even better at conveying the concept of life, regeneration, and the power of renaissance. Brooches and pendants are made more precious and lit by the light-blue brightness of raw aquamarine, inserted in fragments within the compositions with evident evocative aim. The purity and brightness of the light-blue stone contrast with the mysterious tone of oxidized silver, giving each piece a sense of poetic refinement.

#4, Collection: like WATER...

Brooch 925 Silver, Aquamarine, Spinel, Silk