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Expressing that concepts like fashion and trend obstruct innovative designs to be created, jewel designer Selda Okutan signs designs caught in the middle of sculpture and jewel.
Rather than two dimensional arts like painting she liked each branch of plastic arts since her childhood. Just because of this reason she gave up studying painting. Her great interest on three dimensional figures directed her first to sculpting then to jewel.
Designer of sculptural jewels Selda Okutan told her designs she adorn with human figures and her story to become a designer to Gold News.
Could you mention a little about your jewel design style?
I had some work on geometrical forms at school. My transfer to figurative works, I express myself the best way happened at the school again. Three dimensional, small size, sculptural bodies... I call them sculptural; because I think a make designs caught in the middle of sculpture and jewel I have two dimensional works, too; but in everything I design and make, in every sense, a continuity that don't ruin the order and the story is there. Looking at the big picture, you can understand that it has a story. Or you can have your own deductions and write a different story than mine.
How do you train yourself?
I watch each field of design with pleasure. I don’t stay stuck with jewel, sometime you get jammed, so it is important to be able to find various fields to renew yourself, to feed from is important.
What inspires you to design?
Everything natural actually; but I’m specially moved by human nature and moods. Therefore I prefer to use people naked, in other words as most natural as they are, on my designs. So the expression stands in the forefront more.
Which materials you like to design with the most?
I prefer silver mostly; but on my last collection I used gold and silver, precious gems and semi precious gems together. Except gold and silver materials I use more often are ceramic and porcelain.
Do you follow the trends of jewellery world?
Definitely no, I don’t. I think concepts like fashion and trend are interrupting, limiting, setting templates for creativity and reflecting negatively on new designs.
What about the last collection you have prepared?
I’m about to complete Ceramic Spheres collection I started back in the university. I work on it since about 6 years. Although it seems to be completed, I find new pieces to add at every editing. Aside this collection has no main theme, each sphere has a different subject in itself. The common point of all of them is that they all are at small sizes and sphere form. I’m about to finish “Harem” (Seraglio) and “Arada Kalanlar” (Caught in the Middle Ones) collections that I’ve started this year.
What are your future goals?
My goal is to complete the collections I have and represent my country in an international contest and to exhibit my products at a reputable gallery abroad. I want to have a right to say in the international area by my personal style.
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