A couple years ago, the artist and designer Jonathan Wahl produced a series of large charcoal drawings (yes, these are drawings!) of Victorian jet mourning jewelry. Here is what he says about the series:
The jet jewelry that were the models for my drawings were made during the mid to late 19th century carved by hand from jet, a fossilized material similar to coal but more durable. They were worn during a woman's period of mourning after the death of a loved one when wearing conventional precious jewelry would have been deemed inappropriate.
Today these objects seem Gothic, yet contemporary and almost timeless due to their reflective surfaces and monochromatism. . . Both the objects' timeless beauty and our alienation from their original roles make them perfectly ambiguous when viewed in the scale in which I have rendered them.
Love. Them.
Images courtesy of Sienna Gallery
5 comments:
wow those drawings are incredible. I thought they were the actual thing. They are so realistic it is scary!
wow. they are truly stunning. at first glance i had no idea they were drawings.
beautiful!
that first one looks so lush!
~abigail
aka @GrayDayShop
Thank you for another essential article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information in such a complete way of writing.
These are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing them, Duff!
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