Mieke Vranken

Jeweldesign & Goldsmitthing
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Bamboo
© Mieke Vranken
Gold 18Kt
Niëllo
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Bamboo as a starting point for a wonderful series of earrings. Bamboo is symbolising a long life, friendship.  Using the bamboo and combining the shape with precious materials and subtle patina, each pair of earrings is born as a little work of art.
The final result bears the beauty of Japanese aesthetics. Confronting reflected light with the subtle and subdued forms of oriental art represent an appreciation of shadow and subtlety; a glimpse of reference to the literature by the Japanese author and novelist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki.