"Svalbard" Necklace-belt made of leather

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The work was made specifically for the contest on the theme "I'm going to look for" and took first place in its nomination. This decoration has a lot of secrets and transformations caused by a competitive task.
The inspiration was Philip Pullman's book "Dark Beginnings".
Svalbard is a transformer decoration: a belt belt, a belt and a necklace, each of which can be worn separately with various modifications: putting a helmet-armor or a lightweight crown on the bear, turning the aliteometer dial in or out (it rotates around its axis). The belt can be worn as usual, or you can tie a knot on the side, creating the illusion of a pistol in a holster.

In the fragments of the card on the necklace, the riddle word is encrypted: what do artists leave on their canvases in the lower right corner? And the answer is hidden in a secret pocket on the belt. ( By the way, you can keep other little secrets there).
Mainly I wanted to demonstrate the work with vegetable-tanned leather and all the possibilities of this material in volumetric embossing, as well as in combination with other materials - handmade ceramics that have been fired in a muffle furnace, beads, beads and, of course, natural stones. Using a mix of various techniques and constructive techniques, each element is made by me personally - starting from embroidery and beading and ending with embossing and modeling from clay.
All the elements in the work are not chosen by chance and carry a certain meaning or secret signs: footprints - you can find a lot of things in the footprints and the daemons also leave them.
The design of the decoration resembles the armor of bears - a lot of details with fasteners that can be easily unfastened, for example, to remove the helmet.
Compass (aka alethiometer) will help you find the way and the truth. Turn it with the reverse side - and there is a wind rose in front of you.
Navigators and travelers are guided by the starry sky (small crystals on a dark blue background from above). And one of the largest constellations is the Big Dipper (the bear in the center of the necklace is a kind of reference to this).
Svalbard , translated from Norwegian , is a cold land. And that's exactly what the Norwegians call the island of Svalbard in our world, and in the world of Lyra on the island of Svalbard there are panzerbjerns - armored bears and their king Iorek Byrnison.
The map of the seas and oceans permeates all parts of the decoration, one of the fragments shows the real coordinates of the island of Svalbard. And the "scraps" themselves, in turn, resemble either islands or ice floes.

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