Emi Savacool
My work owes much to Art Nouveau jewelers like Rene Lalique and Georges Fouquet, who utilized the tenuous balance between the beautiful and the grotesque by using the forms of scarabs, wasps, and spiders in their jewelry. By supplementing their forms with precious stones and valuable metals, the formerly repulsive creatures are transformed into status symbols that command reverence and respect.
I employ fine metals, hardwoods, and precious stones to create objects that appear to have emerged, wondrously and inexplicably, from nature. Death and rebirth are inevitable subjects because the insects I portray have fleeting lives.
My goal is to capture the raw power of these creatures;
to create talismans that make the wearer simultaneously
dangerous and magnetic.
I employ fine metals, hardwoods, and precious stones to create objects that appear to have emerged, wondrously and inexplicably, from nature. Death and rebirth are inevitable subjects because the insects I portray have fleeting lives.
My goal is to capture the raw power of these creatures;
to create talismans that make the wearer simultaneously
dangerous and magnetic.
