Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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Title Quote: Leonardo da Vinci

"I would like you to enjoy the jewelry by putting this silver plate on your body and crushing it together with your clothes to hold on. This enables you to change the look of your clothes by creating fluid folds on them.

This plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways depending on not only your everyday emotions but also the pattern or design of the plate, including the new patterns of the plate drawn by the crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can basically enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you could find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush would create a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wrap you up for the day.

The key message or objective of this jewelry is that you can create a ‘today’ or a new you by destroying ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’.

Since it is made of metal, this silver plate would be so cracked or broken that you won’t hold or even wear it permanently. In that case, I would like you to stop to use it and send it to me. I will remelt it up and remake it as new one. That is to say you can get new plate perpetually. That is because partially I am afraid of a sharp edge of the broken metal. But moreover, it is because I am afraid that the broken jewelry may end up becoming or being stagnant as ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’ by keeping using it." -naoko agawa