Metal and flesh

[imomus]

My slot at The Moment this week is filled with the fabulously inventive body jewelry of Berlin-based Japanese designer Naoko Ogawa. This is actually the Moment piece I've been most pleased to write, because Naoko's work is brilliant, but nobody knows.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just looked at your Wikipedia page. Are you really that old or is that a mistake? If not, you are older than my parents.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's a mistake I was too slow to correct, and now it's true.

[(Anonymous)]

Good answer.

Are you looking forward to your fifties? Are you more frightened of ageing/illness/death as you get older, or less frightened? Does this stuff get easier or harder? Do you feel an increasing cultural gulf between yourself and young people, or not? I'd be interested to know what you think.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care how old Momus is. I would still let him cum on my face.

[viceanglais.livejournal.com]

Mother! Get off the internet.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

A couple of thoughts that popped into my head when I saw her jewelry and read her statement:

1) How easy is it to scrunch into a pleasing shape?

2) How secure is this jewelry ie. Could you wear it and say, run for the bus without worrying about it falling off?

3) You buy this jewelry in sheets, and when they're worn you send them back to her for recycling. Do you buy them back off her at a discounted price? How does that work?

4) "The key message is that you can create a new you."
Really? A whole new me? I like to think that my purchases are an expression of me rather than a definer of me. I don't like that soundbite at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Happy st. Nicholas from you friends in Holland and Belgium.
(I quite like the jewelry, by the wat. If I ever need some, I'll make sure to buy some of Naoko Ogawa)

[(Anonymous)]

And from Czechoslovakia, apparently.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

The idea of the kashi-kiri is absolutely wonderful. But then, I suppose something similar could be said about high heels.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

As for the jewelry: I think I'd like it better if these cloth-gathering objets adopted some sort of discernible form, like origami.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

they definitely lack something. not really a form i'd say. as much as i like them i can only relate to them as something i would have liked -a lot- in the 90s.
might find them more appealing if they were made of scandium or something.; ( i mean using a highly technical/practical material for pure esthetic purposes might be slightly rad in this day and age)

[(Anonymous)]

They had me with the nipples. I would probably be too lazy to recycle the jewelry, but I like the idea of toying with metal origami.

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

I think it is bloody brilliant, and it is easy to spot the Miyake (http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2008/02/09/foiled-again/issey-miyake/) influence; in the sense of the pleats and folds (http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/16/pleat_narrowweb__300x495,0.jpg). Lovely.

[cerulicante.livejournal.com]

I think the most important thing for white European men is that you can see her nipples through her shirt. They compete with the silver for your attention, ne?

Is the artifice of rare metal equivalent, subservient or inferior to the natural nipple "jewelry" that all women already possess and from which life-giving nourishment can flow?