To operate the decorative light, one must gently move the ring (containing a magnet) towards the main jewelry piece. This project is interesting to me because it expands on what the idea of jewelry is as ornamentation, making it more than just a piece of something that you decorate your ear, neck or wrist with.

The tattoo-me boots have changeable linings each of the linings have a different pattern on, when worn they will eventually leave an imprint on the legs, thus creating a temporary tattoo. Fellow classmate and blogger Sheila was also looking at something similar.

I’m not saying that I find either of these examples practical in any way (in fact, the idea of sitting on beaded underwear all day just so I can have an embossed backside that no one might even see sounds painful and pointless). But I do find the idea of our garments making a mark upon us extremely interesting. In fact, I started to wonder who else was exploring the idea of designed objects making temporary marks on our bodies. I stumbled upon the Sun-Tattoo blanket by Yu-Chiao Wang which I think is both amazing and ridiculous at the same time:  amazing because of the concept, ridiculous due to the impracticality of it.

And in keeping with suntanning, for those of you who have left a poolside lounge chair with unsightly marks all over your body after a day of baking in the sun, Jenny Pokryvailo has designed a more aesthetically pleasing solution.  Her chaise lounge leaves a beautiful flower temporarily embossed in your skin, instead of the usual loung chair pattern. Again, I’m not as interested in the actual products as I am in the idea of leaving temporary marks on the body with objects or garmets that touch our skin for a period of time. I wonder if there is a way to apply this same idea to communicate a bigger idea, rather than solely for decoration.