I am a multidisciplinary graphic designer, illustrator, art director & artist, based in BC, Canada.
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Jewelry Design
I am half Hispanic and half Arab, on my mothers side she’s from El Salvador (a country located in Central America). I remember when I was young and my milky teeth would fall out she would always remind me of her tradition, she would tell me how in El Salvador people would take the milky teeth and gold plate them into gold earrings for little girls; and so these simple gold plated baby teeth would look like little gold nuggets.
Ever since my mother taught me that tradition I also would think of mermaids, imagining that this is something they would wear because I believed that my teeth were sea shells and pearls which were then formed into teeth.
In my piece I wanted to contemporize the look of these earrings in a fashionable way by; exaggerating the size of the milky tooth, organically twisting the gold wires, recycling broken jewelry chains, dipping them into gold paint and adding Swarovski crystals. I also used a sea shell as a mold to play on with my childhood imagination of my teeth being sea shells and pearls which were then formed into teeth.