Panayiotis Panayi

“DATA”

The amount of information that our brains compute every day is staggering,Just by looking at the tiled ceiling while reclining on a Belmont X-calibur dentist’s chair, as one does on these most reluctant, pre-scheduled and somewhat painful appointments.

Even in these mundane experiences our brain’s 100 Billion neurons are firing at unbelievable speeds. My idea was to isolate some of these processes of the human brain

I noticed the material the Dentist used on me that day to close the hole on my tooth, created mostly by soft drinks and gummy bears. I thought that I would google it later;

And google it I did. I found out about composite fillings that day.

I used Oxidised Silver (black) as a base and after some experimentation with polymers I ended up with with the Data collection. “SOLITUDE” These past couple of years have been hard on most of us. To people who are more outdoorsy it was like a never ending nightmare. I like to spend time outside of the confines of my house. I usually go on long hikes to find mushrooms, I roam the forests, I go fishing on my boat. After a few months of online shopping, house renovating, mask making, indoor hobby mastering, hygiene pursuing, pilates starting, binge watching, gaming, pilates quitting, conspiracy theorizing and self hair cutting at the risk of sounding overly dramatic, I felt like I was rattling in my own coffin.

All that was left to me was my own isolation, my own staring of the Abyss.

This is a collection that came as a direct result of these feelings, all these ideas trapped in boxes isolated from the world. The straps for these pieces were created using real leather by my wife Victoria and they are one of the indoor hobby masterings I mentioned before. The idea is for people to wear these pieces with pride, to remember we are not creatures that can live without interacting with our tribe. That we need our people, whether they are friends, or family close to us. They are pieces celebrating our global Reunion. “PRESSURE” Since the dawn of man, we humans had an intrinsic desire to further evolve our species.This intellectual tendency that leads us to our goals, leaves us oblivious to any negative consequences to our surroundings or ourselves. We will pursue our goals at any cost.

These days we have managed to lose control, we have imprisoned our spirit and we are fed on a daily basis a banquet of stress and pressure to further accommodate our own ambitions or the ones of our peers.

The collection above is inspired by that burden; by the pressure that seems to distinguish modern man. This collection is made out of titanium (lightweight elastic, hard metal). As it wraps around the finger it applies a small amount of pressure.