To many, hair is pride and beauty. But once severed from the body, those once-lovely locks become repulsive. And the thought of being in contact with stray hair is just, well, out of the question.

Inspired by this concept of simultaneously opposing emotional responses, Kerry Howley, a 23-year-old art and jewellery student of London Middlesex University, intricately wove real human hair into necklaces for her controversial collection, Attraction/Aversion.

Kerry wanted to see if “discarded hair” could be made “attractive again”, she said.

The award-winning graduate collection explores materials of attraction and aversion, and instinctively pleasing patterns and symmetry, liken to Damask wallpaper patterns, were used.

She hoped to create a “delicate balance between the viewer/wearer’s feelings of aversion and attraction”, Kerry said.

For each necklace, Kerry spent more than 60 hours using her mother’s friend’s, a Japanese lady with waist-length hair that’s only cut once every five years, to supply the source material.

These pieces of hair-around-necks have won the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture’s Arthur Silver Award, and exhibited at London’s Business Design Centre.







[via Arts Thread]


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