"Sakura" Series

The "Sakura" hairpins are a series of twenty hairpins that compliment the "Wind in the Reeds" series. 

In this series I looked at jewelery as ornament and function both. The brooch, for instance, can be used to secure parts of the garment as well as adorn the body. Similarly, the hairpin can be used to both fix the hair into a style as well as garnish the body in a unique way. 

Following the Japanese garden inspiration of the "Wind in the Reeds," the hair pins reflect Geisha hair ornaments, as well as being designed to work in pairs, having one shape be the "flower" coupled with a "leaf".

The pins come in five different colours- red, blue, green, purple and black-

as well as five different shapes -leaf, spear, arch, circle and half circle. Each pin then has a unique pattern of washi on the face. Made from anodised aluminium, I had the basic pin laser cut from Ponoko (http://www.ponoko.com/home), as well as the transparent acrylic faces. After anodising I riveted the faces on with sterling silver (925) wire. 

The series was shown publicly in the Eleventimestwenty exhibition at the Out of Hand Gallery, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop, Australian National University School of Art from the 27th of August to September 

1st, 2009.