The necklace as an object symbolize our ancestral necessity to produce goods without a specific purpose OR usage. THE NEKLACE REPRESENTS LUXURY.

 

A horse, belonging to the mammalian species, after five or six years of life is processed for meat and a lot of other products.

AS IN A PERFECT PRODUCTION PROCESS A natural organism is totally transformed.

 nothing is thrown awaY,

all the process seems to be perfect.

Is it beauty?

Is it horror?

 

Is it beautiful or horrible that FOR  THE production of new goods for human beings an animal grows for five or six years, and consumes tonnes of natural resources?

Which is the most important necessity in life?

Should we use less material or simply use more of it, transform it, reveal its value..?

 

 

Colonna is composed by a necklace made of bone china porcelain, a tail of horsehair and a book-coffer divided in four chapters:

The research, The shape, The components

The object.

THE PACKAGING PAYS HOMAGE TO THE NECKLACE DOCUMENTING THE CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS BEHIND IT.