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Mutation Quartet : Artefacts in Transition

Material: Electroformed copper with hand-painted mica patina

Technique: Forms built with Ferris wax, lacquer wax, hot glue, embedded beads and wire; completed through mould-making, electroforming and hand painting

Size: Various (approx. 3.8–7.9 cm high × 5.2–6.3 cm wide)

Description: What if jewellery could mutate like flesh? Mutation Quartet stages four behavioural states, Entryform, Climber, Guardian, and Sprawl, each caught between adaptation and loss of control. These forms do not just hover between body and artefact, they test the boundary itself, turning threshold, intrusion, defence, and overgrowth into sculptural identity. Texture becomes pathology. Scale becomes defiance. Together, the quartet reads less like four separate rings than a sequence of transformation.

Entryform: First Breach

A threshold form where mutation first finds purchase. Entryform reads as the beginning of alteration: an opening thickening into structure, vulnerable but already active. It does not simply receive change, it lets it in, making breach the first condition of growth.

Sprawl: Overrun

A form at the point where expansion outruns control. Sprawl pushes outward past balance and containment, letting clustered growth overtake the structure until spread becomes the dominant logic. It does not defend or negotiate. It consumes space and keeps going.

Climber: Invasive Reach

A form built through attachment, creep, and upward insistence. Climber advances by gripping the surface and using structure against itself, turning ornament into a route of ascent. It feels opportunistic and persistent, as though mutation has learned how to move by clinging.

Project overview

These four forms do not describe a single body in a single state. They describe what happens when pressure starts to change behaviour. One opens. One reaches. One braces. One loses control. Mutation Quartet is about what a form becomes when it has to adapt, defend itself, or give way. The rings read like small bodily fictions, each one holding a different response to stress, intrusion, and survival.

Guardian: Held Under Pressure

Size: Approx. 7 cm high × 6.3 cm wide

A weight-bearing structure forged in resistance. Guardian holds internal pressure and restraint in the same body, balanced but visibly straining. Its looped form reads like adornment hardened into armour, a tactile defence bracing for impact and refusing collapse.

Bloomed Crown: Guardian from Above

From above, Guardian reads as pressure gathered at the crown. Fungal clusters bloom across blistered surfaces while patina settles into lesions, scars, and crusts. The growth does not soften the form. It records the strain of holding. What looks ornamental is really pressure made visible, hardened into structure and still resisting release.