SPLASH! 

 

SPLASH! is a water coaster. The clasp shows the ride's entrance and exit. people come from the entrance and ride on the coaster which goes slow behind the neck and comes down fast with a splash! The coaster goes comes full circle back to the clasp, people get off one by one and walk to the exit.

 

I expressed the splash by very unique rare baroque pearls with tails. Because my grandfather cultivated pearls, I had chance to see many interesting pearls since I was a child. I wanted to make something with pearl necklaces for the Old Meets New Exhibtion. My mother made the pearl necklace part because it takes great skill to make beautifully arrange pearl necklaces. It's very difficult and my mother has done this for a long time. So this is a mix of me and my mother's work.

 

Akoya pearls are the pearls from Japanese sea. Because they are smaller oysters, the pearls are smaller than south sea pearls. The blue gray color is natural, not dyed.9mm is the biggest size in Akoya pearls. I used 9mm, 8.5mm,8mm,5.5mm. I used the pearl to to express the waves by varying the size of the pearls. Now that the sea is becoming more polluted, they can't grow pearls for a long time in the sea, they grow for only 1-2 years. The Oysters can no longer live longer than this due to global warming. The temperature has become too high. When my mother was a child, her father grew pearls for 5-6 years in the sea and the pearls would have lots of layers and become thick and shiny but also form in unique shapes (baroque). Because of climate change and pollution baroque pearls with large tails are very rare.

 

"I made this splash necklace with all Keshi pearls. Keshi pearls are all pearls that grew without a nucleus, sometime on sands or fragments of shell. So, Keshi pearls are created by many layers of pearls. As the ocean becomes more polluted, less keshi pearls are made. So they are very rare.

 

My mother was in the pearl business more than 45 years. In her lifetime, she has sold many Keshi necklaces but these Keshi necklaces, with delicate thin needle like pearls, were the most beautiful and she could not bring herself to sell them. She bought them 30 years ago when the sea was still clean and kept them for a long time as material for herself to look at but not to wear. However, she gave them to me to make this very special splash necklace."

 

SPLASH! Ⅱ / sterling silver, k18, Akoya keshi pearls

 

SPLASH! is a water coaster. The clasp shows the ride's entrance and exit. people come from the entrance and ride on the coaster which goes slow behind the neck and comes down fast with a splash! The coaster goes comes full circle back to the clasp, people get off one by one and walk to the exit.

 

"I made this splash necklace with all Keshi pearls. Keshi pearls are all pearls that grew without a nucleus, sometime on sands or fragments of shell. So, Keshi pearls are created by many layers of pearls. As the ocean becomes more polluted, less keshi pearls are made. So they are very rare.

 

My mother was in the pearl business more than 45 years. In her lifetime, she has sold many Keshi necklaces but these Keshi necklaces, with delicate thin needle like pearls, were the most beautiful and she could not bring herself to sell them. She bought them 30 years ago when the sea was still clean and kept them for a long time as material for herself to look at but not to wear. However, she gave them to me to make this very special splash necklace."

 

I used some different Keshi necklaces and tried to arrange them to have a beautiful gradation. You can see the delicate gradation on the last picture from white to bluish gray. It’s really beautiful.

 

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