The Ishi Iro Iro #2 single drop stud earring is a handmade piece by Kaoru Rogers, created for e.g.etal’s exhibition Site Specific.
“Moving to California where I have been distanced from the country where I was born, Japan, and my adoptive country, Australia, I had to start over again to kind of build a new life. As a maker, this involved finding places to source my materials, cast, buy tools and a community where I can share knowledge and inspiration. I often find it funny that I find a stone from Australia, cut in Thailand which I end up purchasing in California. So I find it fitting that I would be cut loose a little from the confines of my regular work and see where this collection of “stones” will take me. An adventure in a way.”
Site Specific, presented as part of Radiant Pavilion Naarm/Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, is an exhibition that pays homage to the relationship between the interior and exterior of our being, and the inability to separate oneself from their environment.
