Brooch Stainless Steel Tenebrio Molitor Berry

Limited edition hand-cut and hand-finished stainless steel brooch from the Tenebrio Molitor series by Pia Larsen, developed from an interest in the power of language and symbols to direct our thinking about bodies, through the lens of gender, and X and Y chromosomes.

Dimensions: 7cm x 4.5cm x 5mm approx

Materials: Hand-cut Stainless Steel.

Pia Larsen is an artist who enjoys translating concepts through materials, imagery and objects. She has a particular passion for print media and colour, and interest in objects in flux that can activate space and be worn on the body. 

The Tenebrio Molitor seried of brooches in stainless steel were developed from an interest in the power of language and symbols to direct our thinking about bodies, through the lens of gender, and X and Y chromosomes. The history of identifying the X and Y chromosomes, for female and male, is founded on the work of Nettie Stevens, who at Bryn Mawr College in 1905 was the first to conclude that the X and Y chromosomes accounted for sex determination.

The design concept for the Tenebrio molitor – (mealworm beetle) series morphs the X and Y shapes into new forms reflecting contemporary notions of gender as fluid and determined by the individual.

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