Vanity

2004
Earrings

The Vanity Earrings are made from natural rocks, deliberately heavy and raw. This work examines vanity as both a personal impulse and a social performance. Who has the biggest jewels at the party? What distinctions do they create? How does the body respond beneath their weight?

By exaggerating scale and material, the earrings transform jewelry into a physical experience and a critical question. The wearer’s posture, endurance, and presence become part of the piece, revealing the tension between beauty and burden, status and strain. In this way, Vanity challenges ideas of value and adornment, turning decoration into both spectacle and reflection.

Photos by Cary Wolinsky