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LUNAR PROTOTYPE.01. RIGA.LATVIA. MAY.2026.

LUNAR IS A METAL PROJECT DEVELOPED DURING A STAY AT THE ART ACADEMY OF LATVIA, MERGING THE FASHION AND METAL DESIGN FIELDS.

LUNAR DRESS. METAL DESIGN EXHIBITION AT RIGA MAKERSPACE. MAY, 2026. LATVIA.

MANUFACTURED BY MARIEN AS DIRECTOR JEWELER OF TONY BLANCO JEWELRY STUDIO, LUNAR PROTOTYPE 01 IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF METAL FASHION OBJECTS TO BE DESIGNED FOLLOWING THE FINDINGS ENCOUNTERED DURING ITS PRODUCTION PROCESS.

CRAFTED FROM ALUMINIUM 1.2MM. THICK SHEETS, ALPACA, AND FLEXIBLE PVC (MAIN PIECE, METAL DREESS) IT COMBINES THE TECHNIQUES OF PATTERNMAKING, FORGING, AND SCULPTING. MECHANISMS FOR JOINTS INCLUDE THE WORK WITH MAGNETS, SOLDERING, AND RIVETING. TOTAL WEIGHT OF THE PIECE IS AROUND 3000 GR. CONCEIVED AS A RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION PROJECT IN WHICH TONY BLANCO STUDIO EXPERIMENTS WITH LARGER SCALE METAL DESIGN (FROM JEWELRY TO FASHION), AND A WIDER RANGE OF MATIERIALS SUCH AS ALUMINIUM.

PAPER DRESS pattern, Feb 2026, riga

ALUMINIUM FORMING TESTS, MARCH 2026

PAPER AND ALUMINIUM PATTERNS, MARCH 2026

FLEXIBLE PVC CONNECTIONS FOR MOVEMENT, RIBETS, AND MAGNETS STRUCTURE

LUNAR PROJECT IS A PROPOSITION TO ENGAGE. A NARRATION THROUGH TWO WEARABLE OBJECTS: A DRESS AND A PURSE. THE OBJECTS ACT AS INTERFACES. TO EXPRESS THE MOOD OF A TRAVEL TO THE MOON. THE WORK POSSES A STATEMENT ON THE CARE OF EARTH. IT PLAYS WITH SCALE AND PERSPECTIVE, PLACING THE SPECTATOR AWAY. TAKING DISTANCE FROM THE PLANET ITSELF AND THE LIVES CONTAINED, INCLUDING HUMANITY.

THE TRAVEL IS DIVIDED IN THREE ACTS: BEFORE THE MOON. LUNAR DANCE. AFTER THE MOON.THE SHOWCASE OF THE PIECES IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL RECORD , SOME SOUNDS CREATED WITH KAOSSILATOR (DYNAMIC PHRASE SYNTHESIZER) BY KORG, A MACHINE WHICH MAKES IF DIFFICULT TO REPRODUCE THE SOUND AGAIN, IN A PRESENT TIME.

KAOSSILATOR BY KORG REPRODUCING LUNAR RECORD DURING MAY 2026 EXHIBITION, RIGA

LEAFLET FOR LUNAR PROJECT EXHIBITION

WE INVITE SPECTATORS TO FIGURE THEMSELVES WEARING THIS KIND OF OBJECTS ON THIS TRAVEL. FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON AND BACK. AND MAKE THEIR OWN SOUND, REPRESENTING THEIR WISHES FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURES.

GINTA WEARING LUNAR DRESS. RIGA, MAY 2026

LUNAR DRESS IS LIMITED IN MOVEMENT. IT IS DESIGNED AS A DRESS TO GO DANCE, JUST IT PERMITS MAINLY JUMPING MOVES. ON LUNAR GRAVITY. THIS ORIGINS A VERY SPECIFIC DANCE AND ATMOSPHERE. A SOLO DANCE, ON A SPACIAL LANDSCAPE, AND STRANGE MOVEMENTS.

EARTH PURSE APPEARS AS A METAPHOR FOR THE EARTH. IT CONTAINS FIRE AS A REMINDER OF THE PLANET’S LIGHT. IT IS SHAPED AS A CHAIN THAT ATTIRES THE SUBJECT BACK HOME.

LUNAR DRESS AND EARTH PURSE

EARTH PURSE

LUNAR PROJECT IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CRITICAL CRITICAL DESIGN PAPER. PRESENTING A FICTIONAL STORY, The narration is written in first person, as it presents the personal perspective of a subject using the product (metal) design ojects as interfaces to imagine alternative and / or new possibilities following the Critical Design framework.

2 THE MOON & BACK. CRITICAL DESIGN PAPER

The story narrated is divided in three acts: from the Earth to the Moon; Lunar dance; and back to Earth. The first act presents the act of exploration, a mind state in which everything remains possible, new, and surprising. This first act represents the design phase of discovery. The second act poses tranqulity, solitude and a more paused mood in which observation, emotions, and creativity open the design phases of definition and possible developments. During this second act the narration presents three different design routes for three different possible future(s). Those three different possible future(s) take recent past models (Arts & Crafts, Bauhaus, and Punk) as cornerstones for new deffinitions. Following Marshall McLuhan proposition in his publication The Medium Is The Massage: An Inventory of Effects in collaboration with Quentin Fiore. “The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land”. Finally, the third act expresses a reflection on solutions for a better future for Earth, and the action route to implement those changes to deliver a new more sustainable reality.

LUNAR PROJECT EXHIBITED IN RIGA, MAY, 2026

LUNAR PROPOSE A SET OB OBJECTS TO INTERACT WITH, IT FINDS MEANING WHEN EXHIBITED, BY INVITING TO REFLECT AND OPEN NEW WAYS. WE ARE VEY PLEASED TO LEND THE PIECES TO INSTITUTIONS, AND COLLECTIVES WORKING FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE EARTH. PLEASE, CONTACT THE TEAM FOR DETAILS.