JEWELLERY IS AT MY FEET
PANJAPOL KULAPAPANGKORN
JUNE 30 – AUG 07, 2016
ATTA GALLERY, BANGKOK
“Everybody has their own jewellery,
but not everyone realizes that
they have already worn it.”
My work pushes the boundaries of jewellery by re-thinking, re-defining and re-interpreting the definition of jewellery design. I started questioning myself, asking what is the meaning of jewellery? I traveled around the world to open up my horizon. From place to place, one footstep after another, it has a lot of meanings, stories and memories. During my travels, I always recorded and collected my memories from the places I visited through film, sounds, my diaries, photographs and found objects. All these things have a strong emotional and physical relationship.
The memory that is precious, is very personal and individual. It seems I wear it, not on my body but in my mind. A memory can be defined in my view as a piece of jewellery that is still a part of me and with me all the time. “Jewellery is at my feet, the show is yours,” the community project, was created in 2012 in order to communicate my belief towards jewellery’s perception to others. To do this I started creating Memory Kits – boxes consisting of a memory bag, badges and instructions for participation. I asked the kit recipients to record their lives by filming their footsteps and valued moments and also collecting memory objects.
Almost two years later, the memories from participants were returned. Films, found objects, train tickets, wedding rings, tree branches, plastic toys and even wrapping papers from 133 participants in 25 countries were received at my studio. These things came with personal and individual narratives that I used as my main material to create pieces of jewellery, based on each participant’s own story.
“Jewellery is at my feet, the show is yours” project
Panjapol Kulpapangkorn
panjapolkulp.info