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The Bling Series

 Ongoing

 

The Bling Series is comprised of sculptures and installations, of or referencing, heirloom jewelry. A piece of jewelry being an asset as well as an article of adornment, for a lot of women can represent financial mobility and security, and subsequently, increased independence. My work explores how adorning one’s body can thus be a feminist act of resistance: a reclamation of space; an assertion of one’s agency.

Through my practice, I reconstruct the feminist agency to which adornment is a conduit, making it bigger and louder, wilder and more passionate. I use a diverse, texturally varied array of materials such as steel; bronze; mirror; fabric; gold leaf; and feathers. Building on my interest in how jewelry allows a woman to affect the ways in which she commands space, I play with weight, light, and shadow, to redefine architecture. Furthermore, to engage with the temporal quality of heirloom jewelry—as any one piece of jewelry is in conversation with history, the here and now, and the future—my sculptures illustrate the effects of time, either through natural or created rust, and materials such as dried rose petals.

Installation; Bling City
Installation; Bling City
Select installation shots from my Thesis Show, Bling City, May 2022

It's Complicated

It's Complicated
It's Complicated
Lahore   /   Steel; gold leaf; oil on canvas; rose petals; mirror; resin
Lahore - Detail
Lahore - Detail
Lahore - Detail
Lahore - Detail

Lahore

All That Bling
All That Bling

All That Bling

So I Guess We're Not Getting Our Jewels Back?   /   Steel; aluminum; oil on canvas; enamel; resin; light bulbs
So I Guess We're Not Getting Our Jewels Back?
So I Guess We're Not Getting Our Jewels Back? - Detail
So I Guess We're Not Getting Our Jewels Back? - Detail

So I Guess We're Not Getting Our Jewels Back?

Untethered and Fabulous
Untethered and Fabulous

Untethered and Fabulous

Celestial Beauties Looking Sexy in Tiffany's
Celestial Beauties Looking Sexy in Tiffany's
Celestial Beauties Looking Sexy in Tiffany's
Celestial Beauties Looking Sexy in Tiffany's

Celestial Beauties Looking Sexy in Tiffany's 

The Lovers Leave the City
The Lovers Leave the City
The Lovers Leave the City
The Lovers Leave the City

The Lovers Leave the City

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