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Vintage Texts Transformed Into Layered Rings, Bracelets, and Pendants by Jeremy May

Image via RR Gallery

Jewelry maker Jeremy May designs wearable pieces from the layered pages of vintage books, transforming their content into unique works that are nearly impossible to trace back to their paper origin. To make these multi-shaped works, May first laminates hundreds of sheets of paper together. He then creates the shape for the piece, and finishes it off with a high gloss coating. After production, May often inserts the works back into the books, bringing the transformed and colorful pages back to their material source.

Although many of the pieces lose the words and images on the book’s original pages, some preserve hints to the jewelry’s former life in snippets of text or photographs that make it onto the final piece. Each ring or bracelet he produces is formed through a book that May finds inspiring, allowing the jewelry’s content to match its pleasing aesthetic.

The London-based artist is a part of the group exhibition “Read and Worn: Jewelry From Books” at RR Gallery in New York City through April 24. (via My Modern Met)

Image via Jeremy May

Image via Jeremy May

Image via Jeremy May

Image via RR Gallery

Image via RR Gallery

Image via Jeremy May

Image via Jeremy May

Image via Jeremy May

Image via Jeremy May