My new piece of wearable jewellery continues my research that started with the "Post City" and "Let The Children Play" necklaces. Yet rather than telling just one story, "Gæa Prospering (Gæa Dying)" recounts two tales. I mainly used the French knitting technique employing 100% wool yarn in apple green, turquoise and sand.
The piece represents on one side a happy planet Earth. People are walking, working, jogging, eating under a tree, resting, playing in the sea, relaxing, or animatedly talking, while trees are blooming.
The necklace has a double side, though: if we turn it around the green and turquoise wool turns into a deep sand colour, evoking the dooming persistent degradation of our ecosystem, and the desertification of our planet with only a woman and a child sitting in the horizon, representing the last human beings left on the planet.
This piece turns therefore into a moniker for the wearer: it is a way to remind us all that we should all do as much as possible to avoid or reverse the desertification process and its negative impacts, protecting our planet and preserving nature.
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