Frill Earring: Structured Flow

About The Entry

Frill Earring reinterprets the fluidity of Renaissance textile folds as a structural metal object, shifting the role of jewelry from ornament to engineered form. The project originates from translating the fluidity and volumetric softness of textile folds into a metal structure. Rather than imitating softness directly, it interprets the underlying logic of tension and flow and reconstructs it through a rigid material.

The piece is digitally sculpted, enabling precise control over surface continuity, thickness variation, and internal volume. A hollow casting system is applied to maintain a voluminous silhouette while significantly reducing weight, ensuring wearability without compromising structural presence.

The asymmetrical configuration is a calculated distribution of mass and balance, allowing the object to stabilize naturally on the ear. Internal perforations are not decorative but serve as structural and visual elements, reducing material while enhancing depth and spatial complexity.

This work approaches metal not as decoration, but as a structural system capable of embodying movement. Through controlled curvature, layered density, and internal voids, rigidity is transformed into flow. Frill Earring proposes a new direction for jewelry design: a wearable structure governed by logic rather than ornament.