Tongues
Tongues series transforms mango pits to uncannily resemble that body boundary shifting organ. Food-dyed waste leather is moulded around the stone, suggesting pimpled skin, meat and externally wearable muscles. These intriguing pieces are designed to draw in the viewer and wearer, both attracting and repelling them. The pieces seek to shift and highlight bodily awareness, enhancing our sensory perception and re-connecting us with our internal organ’s processes of consuming food .
Rachael Colley
Sheffield, England
Tongues (veined pink), Rachael ColleyNecklace; beetroot dyed and moulded leather waste, mango pits, iron, bamboo
Tongues, Rachael ColleyBrooches; beetroot dyed and moulded leather waste, mango pits, stainless steel, bamboo
Tongues, Rachael ColleyBrooches; fruit and vegetable (blackberry, beetroot, avocado pit) dyed and moulded leather waste, mango pits, stainless steel, bamboo
Tongues (pock-marked pink), Rachael ColleyNecklace; beetroot dyed and moulded leather waste, mango pits, iron, bamboo
Tongues (pink peel print), Rachael ColleyNecklace; beetroot dyed and moulded leather waste, mango pits, iron, bamboo