I first found her '1600 Chairs' installation 2003 for the '8th Istanbul Biennial' in a full page photograph in the Independent, I adore this piece of work.
Doris Salcedo trained in New York and Bogota, her work often features domestic objects hauntingly separated from human contact. Her work alludes to the fragility of human life, to death and great loss that she experienced in her native Columbia.
Doris Salcedo : "My work deals with the fact that the beloved — the object of violence — always leaves his or her trace imprinted on us."
These works by Ozlem Kilic of LemkaB a fashion graduate who now makes jewelery and accessories from leather, they remind me of the beauty of snowflakes and Spirograph's, I love the clean design and the quantity of component pieces, please look at Ozlem's shop she also has wonderful cuffs and bags.
