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The Earth, The City

Camila Cebrecos

UAL Foundation Jewellery & Accessories student. Based in Peru and London.

UAL Foundation Jewellery & Accessories student. Based in Peru and London.

This project is about the meeting points between nature and a city’s structure. A city, man’s design to take control of nature’s happenings, corrodes physically as well as functionally. Lima (Peru), the city I grew up in and where decay is present in the way it unfolds, was a source of a lot of my research, mainly observational. Tree bark was gathered from the street and paired with concrete to hold onto the hair, metal pieces that had been left to rust were then sewed and joined at the neck.

Final work

Two models, one wearing a headpiece, the other wearing a neck piece (pieces described below).
Head piece made from tree bark and joined by cement. The piece is held up on the head using a leather cord.

Head piece

Tree bark collected from the streets, joined by cement. The piece is held up on the head using a leather cord.

A neck piece made from rusted metal, sewed and held up by a leather cord, from which cement pendants hang.

Rusted metal, sewed together and held up on the neck using leather cord. Cement pendants.

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The Earth, The City

This project is about the meeting points between nature and a city’s structure. A city, man’s design to take control of nature’s happenings, corrodes physically as well as functionally. Lima (Peru), the city I grew up in and where decay is present in the way it unfolds, ...

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