Instant Obsession

For my 'Translation' installation project, I had planned on spraypainting all of my dollhouses and Barbie paraphernalia 1 solid color. Then, something caught my eye on Amy Tavern's blog, and there was Denise Julia Reytan, making bib necklaces with collages of crap, all spraypainted the same color! Beautiful, I'll just have to do the same.

What inspires me about Reytan's work, is that she translates her small scale jewelry work, into large scale installation pieces. For example, here she describes her 2010 installation in Berlin, Big Poem:

"I build this jewellery installation for the »Poems on the 
body« exhibition in the gallery ”Schmuckfrage“ in Berlin.
This installation is about the beauty of everyday objects,
which surround us. I used funny hair rollers, yoga mats, 
plastic dishes, crazy silicon kitchenware, coloured wool, 
glossy plastic buckets, laces, spacy cleaning sponges… 
everything that fascinated me. When I arrange an installation, 

it is the same approach as I create jewelry..only bigger."