Zoa Chimerum Jewelry
World Maker Faire 2017
Jewelry made from electronic materials such as grounding wire and rubber insulation. Form emerges from incremental, growth-like process of layering hand-cut rubber to produce shapes resembling sea creatures, plants, and insect parts.
What inspired you to make this project?:
I was inspired mostly by the pleasure of working with the rubber tubing material and exploring its properties, which are especially well-suited to the kinds of shapes I like to make. A lot of the visual language is inspired by the years I spent living in Boston near the New England Aquarium, where I would
often visit several times a week to stare at the jellies, crustaceans, and sea dragons.