Just Joey Rose

ACCESSORY DESIGN

Just Joey Rose is an accessories brand that redefines the meaning of jewelry with a collection of wearable art pieces that reflect a sense of playfulness for the effortlessly bold.

JOEY ROSE CARDOSO

FINE ART PRACTICE

Joey Rose Cardoso is an Oregon based artist whose practice is rooted in the world of wearable art. The wide ranging body of work that she has created varies from effortlessly bold, everyday pieces, to large scale wearable sculptures, dubbed “wigs”, that interact with the wearer in non-functional and debilitating ways.

Inspired by her decade long struggle with chronic illness, the idea behind the “wigs” is to explore/experience the function and dysfunction of the body, while also speaking to the process of healing. What coping mechanisms do you develop when pieces of your physical body that once worked for you start working against you? What can we learn about the healing process, and what it means to be healthy in a world that is also ailing? The process of designing each “wig” is rooted in reacquainting oneself with their own body, inside and out. The goal is to encourage a new understanding, an intimate relationship with the body that extends deep beneath its superficial layers, an intuitive relationship of reciprocity. This is how you begin to heal.

Instead of referring to more essential parts of the body, hair is used to reference the fact that we may take for granted certain functions of our bodies when we are in a vital state. But what is the function of hair? Isn’t it there to protect you? And what if it malfunctioned? What would happen if this instinct to protect the body got out of control and started to imprison it, impede movement and sight, or became heavy and unmanageable? And how do you transform this experience into something beautiful that can help you reposition yourself within your body and reconnect with your spirit?