Art by boredom

“Art by accident” is a well-known expression and phenomenon among everyone who works to create something: one works towards a goal, something does not go as planned, so it turns out that there is a better solution to what went wrong. I have learned that boredom can also lead to unexpected results.

Today, this picture appeared from 2014. I remember when the ring was made:

It was a late night, I had been working on a big order that was to be sent the next day. Finally, the jewelery went into the polar drums that give the final finishing touches. The time was about two in the night, I was tired . To keep me awake, I found some silver residues and began to file out simple ellipse shapes. I put them together in a ring and set a stone, and finally the order pieces were finished in the drum.

The next day I put the ring on sale, I was really surprised when it was sold immediately. I continued to make several ellipsis shapes of silver residues. After a while, I began to like  the simple but sparkling shapes . But I did not quite know what to do with them yet.

Then the NAJD (Norwegian Assosiation of Jewelery Designers) released a design contest where the task was to make a piece of the theme “The Norwegian Sea”. I immediately knew I had it. Currently only in the form of a bunch of small elliptical waves. It took two days to finish the jewelry.

Even before I learned that the “Wave” jewelry won 1st prize in the competition, I felt that what had started as a boredom project had now become a good design. I began to produce large-scale ellipse shapes in different sizes. I developed the Ocean jewellery collection where 12 different jewelery, all built up of the same basic form, can be combined freely for taste and occasion.

 

 

The Ocean collection, photographed by Aliona Pazdniakova, became one of IGJ’s best selling jewelry series, and one of the designers own favorites.

The whole ocean colony is presented here→

In other words, you may want to get bored. “Art by boredom” I call this.