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Mothers of Pearl
What if your breath turned into a pearl jewellery?
“Mothers of pearl” is an installation which transforms the human breath into a crystal of pearl, resulting over the course of weeks in a pearl jewellery.
In Nature, pearls grow inside of pearl oyster by the accumulation of a substance called calcium carbonate crystal around a template inserted in the oyster. The beautiful nature of the pearls comes from the many layers of calcium carbonate crystals
Designer and material scientist Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art mimicked this natural process to design the “Mothers of pearl”, an installation which transforms the human breath into a crystal of pearl, resulting over the course of weeks in a pearl jewellery.
This project aims to marry a biological growth with the digital fabrication through a combination of careful growth simulation and design of the different artifacts.
“Mothers of pearl” is an installation which transforms the human breath into a crystal of pearl, resulting over the course of weeks in a pearl jewellery.
In Nature, pearls grow inside of pearl oyster by the accumulation of a substance called calcium carbonate crystal around a template inserted in the oyster. The beautiful nature of the pearls comes from the many layers of calcium carbonate crystals
Designer and material scientist Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art mimicked this natural process to design the “Mothers of pearl”, an installation which transforms the human breath into a crystal of pearl, resulting over the course of weeks in a pearl jewellery.
This project aims to marry a biological growth with the digital fabrication through a combination of careful growth simulation and design of the different artifacts.
