Melbourne jeweller Yuko Fujita transforms recycled objects of distinctly domestic and ordinary origins into bold pieces of jewellery. Her pieces herald a new beginning for these objects, while consciously reflecting on the many lives they may have had since beginning as a tree. Carved and chiselled each object by hand, Yuko responds to an inaudible echo of the forest – Kodama – Fujita’s pieces recall imaginary plants, creatures or endangered habitats.

The title, ‘Kodama’, has two meanings – echo or spirit of a tree. When Yuko talks about the pieces she talks about each piece containing an echo from the tree that once was. The contemporary jewellery collection resonates with ancient themes and traditional materials.

An exhibition of work based on wooden items she has found in op shops (bowls, spoons, clogs, etc) to make jewellery will be tied in with the State of Design Festival Look.Stop.Shop program 14-31 July at e.g.etal, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC with opening night Thursday 15 July. Feel free to email flinders@egetal.com.au if you would like to attend.

The “Lost World” Neckpiece to the left and above is made of recycled material of bowls, spoon handle, bookend, 18ct gold, shell, 925 silver, silk cord, paint. It represents a lost environment (habitat) where all life existed harmoniously and dynamically. The “Memory Reading” to the right is also a neckpiece with material of found wooden clog, wooden spoons, 925 silver, paint. It refers to an extinct creature and its rich and various experience memories that we can no longer share.

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