FR33_Flow

The object I’m designing reflects the concept of graffiti as a creative mark of liberation. Graffiti is part of a material and symbolic network orienting participants in the labyrinth of the city space. Writers have been transforming the urban environment through creative arrangements. ‘This prospective urbanism brings about changes, whereby experiences, desires, attitudes and behaviours become free in the urban space’. My project examines how to bring together the two worlds of jewellery and graffiti, investigating the translation of the latter into the former, bringing about new meanings into the jewellery chain concept with a focus on the uniqueness and originality of Japanese and Brazilian graffiti. My project looks at the differences in graffiti art and how particular lines, shapes and complex compositions can translate into innovative jewellery chain pieces, bringing new spontaneous and dynamic shapes for a chain link in order to discover new ways of representing and giving movement into this.