Memory + Travel: Pripyat, Ukraine

MEMORY + TRAVEL: Pripyat, ukraine (2017)

As the Earth molds and moves under our feet, it softly calls to us. Location and wonder pulls us across the Earth to gaze upon it’s vistas and experience it’s cultures. Memory is a precious thing. It can fade and dull over time. Much like Victorian mourning jewelry, to wear these precious moments from the world around us helps keep their memory alive.

This jewelry set is a part of an ongoing series that act as an extension of the ephemeral relationship with memory in relation to the places I’ve traveled and how I experienced them in an abstract way. Using a combination of traditional metal fabrication and new technology, I took patterns found in topographic maps of abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine and proceeded to replicate, dissect, and rearrange them so that the shapes became a dynamic accumulation of form. These objects are made of a variety of materials that may include hand cut brass, silver, powdercoat, steel, and semi- precious stones. The laser engravings on the powdercoat are of those same topographic shapes.