Bun Halo

No Longer Available

Medium

Hair, brass, citrines, honey quartz, champagne citrines, peridot, pearls; Hand fabricated

Dimensions

8" diameter

Cost

commissions upon request

Description

Woke in the Wake art jewelry collection uses afro hair as its most precious material. By doing so, I beg to ask ‘is it valuable now’? The hair is beaded with pearls and precious stones referencing the high jewelry of European Royals. All pieces are worn about the head as this is the area I wish to highlight. When being worn, the pieces evoke commentary, eye contact, and acknowledgment of the wearer’s presence.

About this Artist

Taisha Carrington

Taisha Carrington

Taisha is a Barbadian Jewelry designer and multidisciplinary artist working in performance, sculpture, body adornment, and installation. Across all her forms of making she investigates the liminality of life in the Caribbean after colonialism and into the Anthropocene. Taisha invents ‘devices’ and explores performance and wearing as acts of self-healing while proposing methods for rebirth, reclamation, and reimagining the value of Caribbean people and communities. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Jewelry Design in 2018, was selected by New York City Jewelry Week for their inaugural One For The Future initiative and awarded as a CFDA+ Design Graduate by the Council of Fashion Designers of America- an award given annually to exemplary new talent from a pool of graduates around the world. Her work has been featured in American Craft, Metalsmith Mag, Caribbean Beat and most recently Crucible as a part of Munich Jewelry Week 2021.
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