Myriam Bottazzi
Italian jeweler, designs and produces body ornaments under the label Myriam B. Her ongoing
search for quality materials has led her to incorporate
yarns, fabrics, sequins, rough semiprecious stones and
metals, as well as feathers and other elements of
nature. Each piece in this collection, Nonspecific
Sequins, derives its beauty from the representation of
fragility.
The lightness of Bottazzi’s volumes is
created by imperfect circles and squares, ragged, worn
and repeated, which suggest ephemeral forms of nature:
raindrops, peach trees in bloom and desert roses. Though
her sequins are made out of cellulose acetate, the same
material used to make mass-produced versions, Bottazzi’s
are hand-crafted, exaggerated in shape and volume, and
completely individual. Their colors are smoky and
opaque, never brilliant. Each piece offers a tribute to
the imperfect, a creative, intimate and instinctive
journey unbound by time and fashion.
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