Corazón de Tierra, a collaboration between artists Georgina Treviño and Ozzie Juarez, was impressed by the longer term and the previous, the town and the earth.
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Corazón de Tierra may very well be the identify of a telenovela a couple of group of fashionable pre-Columbian ravers. It’s additionally what Georgina Treviño and Ozzie Juarez name their new assortment of knickknack and tremendous objects impressed by these themes, out there July 28 with Homegrown at Fred Segal.
Think about going to a celebration and reaching to your pair of gravel and cubic zirconia-encrusted, Y2K wrap-around sun shades or bamboo earrings — equipment that look made by hand from the stuff that constructed the town, the earth. “A relic,” Juarez says. “One thing archaeological,” provides Treviño. You set them on and they transport you to a different time — whether or not that’s the longer term or the previous is as much as you. That’s what this assortment, born of a collaboration between two artists of various mediums however sharing a extremely particular imaginative and prescient and “acquainted souls,” can do: spark dialog.
“You’ll be able to body these earrings. I believe it’s one thing that may exist in your physique or that may exist [on its own],” Treviño says.
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The gathering is constructed with the particular gravel combination that Ozzie Juarez makes use of as a base layer on his work as a “factor of the town” — a nod to L.A.’s structure of closely stuccoed buildings and popcorn ceilings.
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The artists experimented with the objects they may put the gravel on, which find yourself trying extremely heavy however are literally light-weight but sturdy.
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Treviño, a recent jeweler and artist, is understood for her expansive concepts and humorousness round what jewellery and artwork will be — a faux cockroach, stay flowers, pierced and airbrushed keys. Juarez, artist and founding father of Tlaloc Studios, creates transformative work that he as soon as described as “making portals.” To collaborate felt like essentially the most natural factor on this planet — one thing they didn’t even consciously resolve to do however occurred magnetically. (Juarez and Treviño met when he modeled a bit she made for a Lujo Depot marketing campaign.)
The thought sprouted throughout one in every of their studio visits. Treviño acquired a better take a look at Juarez’s course of, specifically the particular gravel combination he makes use of as a base layer on his work as a “factor of the town” — a nod to L.A.’s structure of closely stuccoed buildings and popcorn ceilings. “There’s this aesthetic that’s type of a language that has been woven in between numerous our friends that has to do with the structure, the panorama of Los Angeles,” Juarez says. “It simply turns into tremendous harking back to our childhood and the way we grew up.” For Juarez, the gravel additionally serves as a symbolic reference to his ancestors and their use of adobe.
“Afterward, this piece can exist and may inform our story — what was taking place between us. It’s a little bit piece of time that an individual may hold,” Treviño, pictured with Juarez, says.
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Treviño’s wheels began turning. What else may they put this gravel on to give you equipment that look extremely heavy however are literally light-weight but sturdy? “The thought [was] utilizing this substrate, this filth to create one thing actually lovely, to create construction,” Juarez says. “We’re making sun shades, we’re making purses, we’re making objects, and we’re making them out of this land, which is tremendous lovely.”
Juarez made Treviño a particular batch and she or he began experimenting with it, placing it on up to date, pop-culture jewellery like bamboo hoops and including her Treviño-touches, like cubic zirconia. “It’s so attention-grabbing, as a result of it’s a typical bamboo earring — it’s not that costly — however that’s additionally what we’re taking part in with by including this paintings to it,” Treviño says. “You’ll be able to body these earrings. I believe it’s one thing that may exist in your physique or that may exist [on its own].”
She made a sculpture of an Olmec head carrying earrings, tooth charms and a septum piercing that “had a raver vibe” and is likely one of the most essential items within the assortment, Treviño says, nearly like a bodily image of their collaboration: “It was our child.” They photographed it and put it on a T-shirt for the gathering, which additionally contains the sun shades, the bamboo earrings, a purse and numerous one-of-one sculptural objects. However actually, they’re treating every bit on this assortment as sculpture. “They’re simply sculptures to your physique,” Treviño says.
The Olmec head carrying earrings, tooth charms and a septum piercing, with its “raver vibe,” symbolizes the collaboration, Treviño says.
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“It was our child,” Treviño says of the Olmec head sculpture.
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The artists photographed the Olmec head and put it on a T-shirt for the gathering, which additionally contains sun shades, bamboo earrings, a handbag and numerous one-of-one sculptural objects.
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Greater than something, the gathering is a time capsule. “It’s additionally capturing a second in time,” Treviño says. “I believe it’s so lovely what’s taking place in L.A. I nourish all my artist mates, and so I believe coming collectively like that, making a bit collectively, for me, it’s so lovely. Afterward, this piece can exist and may inform our story — what was taking place between us. It’s a little bit piece of time that an individual may hold.”
Inventive path and styling: Georgina Treviño
Pictures: Max Alo
Manufacturing and styling assistant: Marissa Channing
Hair: Jocelyn Vega
Make-up: Maya Nakara
Location: Tlaloc Studios
