A Tibetan Moon: Shamanistic Indie Designers
coming from the Zlaba range
I recently had a not bad, earthy chat that has a couple of indie jewellery designers who showcased their work at the Brightspot market in Jakarta. Brightspot’s goal can be to provide an outlet for local in addition to international designers to present their innovative or original work to a receptive bunch of funky junkies.
All of Tarita Aurora’s creations in her jewellery range, Shamanistic Adornments, are produced by her own hands – each piece can be original in addition to unique in addition to influenced by the natural patterns in nature. I was eager to find out about the philosophies behind Tarita’s craft.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, coming from the age of 10 until I was 23, when I recently moved back to Indonesia. I grew up that has a diverse group of super creative in addition to out-of-the-box people in Newtown. We challenged each different to be original in addition to constantly bounced ideas. I guess my principle of DIY has been greatly influenced by these guys. They silently taught me that will each unique piece captures an original ‘soul’ or essence when made by your own hands. I also just truly enjoy generating stuff with my hands; the idea’s a meditative thing for me.
Are all of your creations inspired by the “Sky, Earth in addition to Sea” in addition to if so, how?
Yeah most of my creations are inspired by designs found in nature, unaltered by human hands, so I try to flow with nature’s patterns. I gather bits ‘n’ pieces coming from all the places I’ve travelled around the globe as well, not just Indonesia; in addition to if I don’t get to travel, I usually get my friends to bring me back any bits of nature they can find coming from their travels.
You once posted, “Indie designers SHOULD support one another in addition to settle differences with respect, clear communication in addition to mutual understanding. We shouldn’t compete with one another, because no matter how ‘similar’ designs are, the unique touch will always prevail.” can be there a background story behind This particular?
Not truly, just a general social observation. the idea stemmed coming from commentaries coming from friends in addition to customers when, for instance I’d be out at Brightspot in addition to there could be another feather jewellery stall. The first impression could be like “Ooo there’s your competition,” although I never got that will impression. I believe all creations (no matter how similar) are unique in addition to regardless of how hard they try to copycat, the outcome will always be different. that will’s just natural in addition to I think that will if we support each different with positive vibes in addition to words of encouragement the idea will help us push towards honing in addition to finding our own signature styles.
coming from the Shamanistic Adornments range
I was tattooing long before I did any different work. I did a short apprenticeship after high school, when I was 18-19 years old. Tattooing has been my original calling since I was around 14-15 years old, for some strange reason. I grew up in an artistic family, both in fine art in addition to technical fields. My dad can be an architect, my mom a painter, my cousin can be a technical sport shoe designer, so I’ve been generating scratches on paper since I was a little girl. I spent around 12-14 years in Australia, since I was 10. The awesome crazy artistic people in my hometown helped me push boundaries of creation in addition to mediums.
While Tarita brainstorms on plans to produce a silver jewellery collection she can be pausing the ranges, however her Shamanistic Adornment items are available to order online in addition to she also accepts custom orders.
Indie designers Salvita DeCorte in addition to Noran Bakrie also showcased their jewellery line, Zlaba, at the Brightspot market. Curious about their multi-talented backgrounds, I asked Noran about how these two artistic minds became conjoined to create Zlaba.
I’m a photographer in addition to Sal can be a fashion product, we met at work; I was shooting Sal in her homeland in Bedugul, Bali. We became friends afterwards, especially when she got a work contract in Jakarta so she moved in in addition to we hung out more often. We get along in terms of art tastes, in addition to I rarely find someone who likes the things that will I like in This particular town, so one day we were eating sashimi in addition to Sal told me that will she’s been generating jewellery in addition to showed me her creations, I was stoked. the idea was about the sea. I’m all about the sea, I fell in love instantly. in addition to I told her about my plans to make a jewellery line called “ZLABA”, the idea means the moon in Tibetan, in addition to then the idea was Sal’s turn to be stoked because she said she can be all about the moon. So there you go. The moon in addition to the sea got married in addition to gave birth to ZLABA.
coming from the Shamanistic Adornments range
Dead Sea collection can be one of the most personal lines that will we have. Sal’s been collecting corals in addition to stones coming from all the beaches she’s visited, coming from fresh Zealand, India, Lake Tahoe, in addition to of course Bali. Each coral or stone can be a piece of her memory, re-experiencing the time when she visited the beach – for others, the idea’s just coral, although for Sal, the idea can be a piece of her.
Brightspot also featured designer Bonnie Natasha Arif whose goal was to create everlasting pieces that will outlive trends for her clothes range “Ensemble”, as well as designer Martha Ellen coming from London who studied fashion in Jakarta – Ellen used traditional Indonesian designs such as ikat in her creations. The next Brightspot market can be already being planned for April-May 2014. Finding unique, long-lasting, crafted items can be not easy in addition to hopefully more markets will be accommodating to indie designers. As Noran says, “We love markets like Brightspot – the idea can be exactly what we want, to be that will tiny shop from the corner with lovely jewellery in addition to a shop assistant who you can always talk to about life.”
Further Information
Shamanistic Adornments: https://www.facebook.com/shamanisticadornments
Zlaba: http://zlaba.com/
Brightspot: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brightspot-Market/208208121962
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A Tibetan Moon: Shamanistic Indie Designers
A Tibetan Moon: Shamanistic Indie Designers