The two different forms of the same jewellery. The one in left is fully opened jewellary and the left is the fully closed one.
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This was a class room project done in NID which is an ear adornment inspired from Kathakali a traditional dance of Kerala. The jewellery form texture and the feel as given from the key words derived from the dance form.

Kathakali is all about telling story,its performance involves a lot of energy which, in turn creates lot of drama, dynamics in terms of emotions and actions. The transformation of each story is done in a very nice and in an elegant
manner that it creates high enthusiasm in the viewer.

Dynamic,transformation, Drama, Elegant, Expressive & Enthusiastic were the key points that were used to generate the form and the functionality in the jewellery.
The Jewellery is having 4 different units, with is having different textures and these indivisual units can be moved in anti clock wise and which will help to change the form by increasing the visual volume.

Exploration was done in other materials like acrylic , aluminium The jewellery was made in Brass.

Rakesh Ravindran
Lifestyle accessories designer Cochin, India