Mizuki Tochigi
Mizuki is a London -based contemporary jewellery artist. During her studies at Central Saint Martins, she has focused on sustainability in her projects from the start of her degree. She strongly believes that sustainable thinking can be a positive, creative force and uses this mindset to drive her designs. Mizuki aims to challenge the perception of everyday materials, adding value to them by using her jewellery skills to reassess our relationship with waste. She believes in making a direct change to our actions for sustainability through her jewellery.
I wanted to make jewellery that can prove the preciousness of waste plastic combined with traditional jewellery techniques and materials. We all know that plastic damages the ocean for decades, however, it is still easy to find plastic bottles. It is not the material itself that is
bad, but our lack of responsibility to ensure plastics don’t end up in almost all our oceans where the damage is great. One day, I saw a plastic bottle literally in a new light. Sitting next to a window and through the sunlight, suddenly I was fascinated by the cleanliness, transparency and reflection of the plastic. Looking again at plastic bottles encouraged me to treat it as a precious material. Inspired by the great oceans of the world, I am exploring the energy of ocean waves and poetic beauty of water around the body to propose a new perspective on a material that is damaging our water environment. I wanted to bring awareness to the subtle beauty of plastic bottles for jewellery, and at the same time, to bring thoughts to the clean water which still can be saved if we change our action.
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