CANDY STORE BRUTE
fun + tasty
Tales from a sugar fiend, expressed in physical form, and executed in a brutalist manner.
Dime store delights re-imagined - celebrate yester-you . celebrate the BRUTE .
Dime store delights re-imagined - celebrate yester-you . celebrate the BRUTE .
It is my belief that if an object embodies a value that transcends its functional duties it has the ability to become an artifact. By designing opportunities that might enable the end-user to create meaning through the content and use of an object, it is my hope that that object will become an artifact, and will go on to have a meaningful life. Many objects in today’s consumer culture have too brief of a life, or don’t spark joy, preciousness, or humour. I don’t just get high on sugar, I also get high on life…and sometimes “life” comes in the form of whimsical or seemingly simple memories (not just the heavy-deep ones). I hope I can share this pleasure by creating and sharing some opportunities for you to experience this phenomenon too.
WHAT’S COOKIN’?
Thank-you and Please Come Again!
I hope you enjoy your trip to candy store brute.
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conversation rings
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comedy and tragedy
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Chunky garnet princess ring
ABOUT CANDY STORE BRUTE
This collection of pieces is inspired by simple things that excited me enough to hold on to them physically and/or in my mind. With Candy Store Brute I tried to maintain the frivolous, half-hazard nature of dime store, surprise and delight, simple treasures and pleasures, perhaps collected or simply experienced in childhood. Inspired by their basis or “core”, but recreated using finer quality materials and methods, such as silver and resin casting,embroidery, and text. Through out the process brutalist qualities came to exist in all of these items and with the realization that this matched my intention to not over think these items and to attempt to capture their “spirit” of fun, spontaneity, at times wonder or humour, and rudimentary charm, I happily embraced and celebrate “THE BRUTE”.
