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Human Hair Necklaces by Kerry Howley

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“Attraction/Aversion” is Kerry Howley’s award winning graduate collection, winning the Museum of Domestic Architecture’s Arthur Silver Award for graduate innovation and excellence. It is a material exploration of how people can feel seemingly opposing emotional responses simultaneously.

The necklaces are made of human hair, a familiar material that we take pride in. However once off of the body hair becomes an innate source of aversion. Kerry wanted to see if she could make discarded hair attractive again.

Through the familiar form of a necklace, and using patterns and symmetry that are instinctively pleasing, Kerry has created a delicate balance between the viewer/wearer’s feelings of aversion and attraction.

Website: kerryhowley.co.uk

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What do you think?

  • http://www.facebook.com/chaszle Chas Terhune via Facebook

    Creative but really, really creepy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Serafia6 Aneta Pawula via Facebook

    ugly

  • http://www.facebook.com/hopec Hope Corizzo via Facebook

    no nonononononooooo

  • http://www.facebook.com/DustinMasafret Dustin Masafret via Facebook

    uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly!

  • http://www.facebook.com/NoeliaFlorencia Noe Flor via Facebook

    disgusting

  • http://www.facebook.com/natalia.a.zambrano Natalia Andrea Losada Zambrano via Facebook

    so ugly!!!

  • Noha-Nonie Belhaj via Facebook

    creepy

  • Tanya Eshelman via Facebook

    hideous. and makes me itch just thinking about it.

  • Sonja Döring via Facebook

    I agree with Chas and add: My whole body is itching from only looking at it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/FabyHolaGD Fabiola Márquez via Facebook

    artistico, pero lindo nivel Gaga.

  • Gabriela Georgieva via Facebook

    ewwww

  • Soozie Ü Lewis via Facebook

    looks like a decorated hairy chest. gross.

  • Sue Dehn via Facebook

    If you had said it was died wool, I would have thought it was nice enough. But now that I know it’s human, it just looks creepy. Interesting bias I have.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joan.roehre Joan Roehre via Facebook

    @Gabriela you took the eeeeeewwwww right out of my mouth!

  • http://www.facebook.com/patrycja.drapacz Patrycja Drapacz via Facebook

    a wyglądało z daleka jak tatuaż….

  • Flabia Ulloa via Facebook

    creepy :S

  • Elizabeth Hauger via Facebook

    gross

  • Ophélie Rodriguez via Facebook

    ugly!!!

  • Jo Madoldbat Lawrence via Facebook

    No strong feelings either way but itchy as hell I imagine!

  • Alice Kordíková via Facebook
  • Laura McNaughton via Facebook

    I find one of those in my shower drain every morning. Think they would sell?

  • Bianca Steyn via Facebook

    creepy…. ewwww

  • Ashley Bowers via Facebook

    Gross!

  • http://www.facebook.com/akhmetzhanovabaizhanovna Assel Akhmetzhanova Baizhanovna via Facebook

    hideous looking , such waste of someone’s talent

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kitsune767 Laura M. Copeland via Facebook

    Yuck! >:-p

  • Jem Tovey via Facebook

    Itchy I reckon…

  • http://www.facebook.com/rachelmarielizabethkeller Rachel Keller via Facebook

    gross

  • Stará Vražda via Facebook

    interesting :)

  • Petr Peterson Hlasny via Facebook

    disgusting

  • Laury Schwing via Facebook

    made me itch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrea-Crnogaj/698080177 Andrea Crnogaj via Facebook

    I like to wear my own hair, on my head, like, growing out of it, thank you very much

  • http://www.facebook.com/clodagh.morrissey Clodagh Morrissey via Facebook

    Yuck…

  • http://www.facebook.com/InkBison InkBison via Facebook

    interesting..

  • Christa Boyer via Facebook

    cool concept, but no, I would not wear a hair necklace…

  • Holly Marble via Facebook

    ew ew ew ew ew!! creative but ew!

  • http://www.facebook.com/michele.yanni Michele Yanni via Facebook

    I do not appreciate!

  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/KO-Art-and-Design/270345299710127 KO Art and Design via Facebook

    It’s so pretty, but human hair not attached to a human grosses me out.

  • Jenn Borowski via Facebook

    Why???

  • Simo Zsofia via Facebook

    it’s creative, but disgusting :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/marcin.rapacz Marcin Rapacz via Facebook

    ło matko

  • Maria Low Reyes via Facebook

    I want to gag!

  • http://www.facebook.com/roxyfenix Stephanie Moore via Facebook

    nasty…

  • Anne Emery Adams via Facebook

    Nope.

  • Valerie Hughes via Facebook

    Just no…

  • http://www.facebook.com/lisahamptonsmith Lisa Hampton-Smith via Facebook

    ugly, gross and makes me itch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/allyssa.driscoll.3 Allyssa Driscoll via Facebook

    Maybe painted toenail clippings made into a collage would be a good idea.
    This person should consider making the Mona Lisa out of hair. That makes anything better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/barbi.thomson Barbi Thomson via Facebook

    Creepy!

  • http://www.facebook.com/weronikabulicz Weronika Bulicz via Facebook

    g r o s s O_o

  • http://www.facebook.com/sandi.wilson.908 Sandi Wilson via Facebook

    yuk

  • http://www.facebook.com/Hblocker2010 Heather Lentz Blocker via Facebook

    They would be stunning if made from a fine gauge copper wire.

  • http://www.facebook.com/norah.macphee1 Norah MacPhee via Facebook

    vile

  • Abigail Hermione Irwin via Facebook

    Looks too fragile for my taste, LOL.
    In Victorian times it was common to make jewellery from the hair of deceased loved ones; it was a way of remembering them. It’s extremely intricate work; if you aren’t told it’s human hair, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as such.

  • http://www.facebook.com/julie.qiu Julie Qiu via Facebook

    very, very disturbing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/molly.corum Molly C. Corum via Facebook

    This is not a new craft. It was done in the Victorian Days. Not sure if it was done before that. First time I saw this was some 30 years ago at our local museum which has a lot of Victorian history. I agree a bit creepy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AdvantagesMag Advantages Magazine via Facebook

    Gross!

  • Pandaface Stabbingworth III via Facebook

    creepily creative…

  • http://www.facebook.com/ditzazz Dijana Djelosevic via Facebook

    both

  • Valentine Ganseman via Facebook

    Beautiful work for sure until you realise it’s hair! :D CREEPY!

  • http://www.facebook.com/toby.winspear Toby Winspear via Facebook

    whoever made this probably has a lot of hair and a lot of time with nothing to do.

  • Steve Vu via Facebook

    Oh NO WAY! UNATTRACTIVE!

  • http://www.facebook.com/maria.pizzey Maria Pizzey via Facebook

    Very clever…..the artist has achieved her brief……beautiful designs that are very pleasing to the eye but totally sickening when the medium is revealed. Hence attraction and aversion simultaneously.

  • Iyad Btaddini

    beautifully ugly!

  • Laura Boyle via Facebook

    Ewwwwww UGLY!

  • Nora McKenna Hurley via Facebook

    Pretty until you know what they’re made of, although human hair has been preserved in jewelry as a memento of a dead loved one before — but the hair is usually enclosed in something. Big difference. This has quasi-holocaust grossness about it, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/abird87 Amanda Rae Bird via Facebook

    distrubing

  • Dess Sure via Facebook

    alot of black girls wear it as weaves all the time,so they wont mind wearing it as necklace,except that now,they will have more chances to spontaneously combust and go up in flames.

  • Leandra Peguero Luciano via Facebook

    distrubing

  • http://www.facebook.com/greenroxy Roxana Gr via Facebook

    ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexis.rupert Alexis Waltman Rupert via Facebook

    It looks like she has a hairy chest…..ewww.

  • Belinda Lewin via Facebook

    Love it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mamash-Nehederet/1447524060 Mamash Nehederet via Facebook

    איכסה!

  • http://www.facebook.com/franjatesa Francisco Javier Téllez Sánchez via Facebook

    Weird

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laila-Kjærgaard/1347259578 Laila Kjærgaard via Facebook

    B.E.A. utiful….

  • http://www.facebook.com/jordan.lacyslater Jordan Lacy-slater via Facebook

    Ive seen lots of jewelry made of human hair but the fact that this actually LOOKS like hair …ick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/thitachai.mac Thitachai Mac via Facebook

    Really in between

  • Sofia Atiyat via Facebook

    itchy :( ( but beautiful :) )

  • http://www.facebook.com/marie.gasper.94 Marie Gasper via Facebook

    I think I just smurfed in my mouth a little!

  • http://www.facebook.com/renee.tyrcha Renee Tyrcha via Facebook

    grossness

  • Celia

    So pretty, but really kind of gross.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tscottc Scott Cummings via Facebook

    absolutely disgusting

  • http://www.facebook.com/wendy.austin.5 Wendy Austin via Facebook

    Beautifully crafted, but I cant imagine ever wanting to wear it!

  • nerdfighter

    eww… gross! but original, I must admit ;)