JAMMY Mag Issue #1 - LUCK by JAMMY-Mag

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IN CONVERSATION WITH SHARADA TOLTON (@SIRENSHORES)

images on previous pages: ‘Bad luck girl’ (left) and ‘no free will forest’ (right)

full page spread ‘Always rainy girl’ by Sharada Tolton

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brainchild of Sabrina Harris, a 21-year-old college student whose chance re-discovery of an old jewellery making kit, during quarantine, rekindled a deep love for creating a whole different species of jewels. Going into the pandemic and quarantine ‘super optimistic’, as she had had a premonition of a pandemic happening in January and was therefore ‘mentally prepared for months, for what was to come’, Harris moved back home and re-did her room, as she explains:

‘I needed to make it mine, because it was my childhood room. It became my sanctuary at home, which was good to have; then when I was cleaning out my room I found old jewellery supplies that I used to use when I was a kid’. And the rest is history. Well, this actually wasn’t the first time that Harris had created jewellery.

‘I’ve been working with jewellery, in different ways, since I was like 9 years old’, Harris recounts. ‘At Summer Camp, there was an activity where you could make jewellery, and I did that. Then in High School, I was doing jewellery with elastic and plastic beads, making it for friends and stuff. And then last year I re-discovered it again, and I started working with chains, so weirdly it was all of the different materials I needed, just in various stages of my life. Then this Summer, because I found everything, I was like ‘oh, this could all come together!’, so then I just started playing with everything.’

With over 8k followers on her Instagram page (at the time of writing this), Harris’ handmade jewellery has attracted customers worldwide due to the distinctly off-kilter and otherworldly look each piece possesses.

‘I started the page, Different Bugs, two Summers ago now. I was living in LA, I was doing an internship there...

...and to a went I bunch of these little stores, and they had jewellery, chains and charms; and I always wanted to buy it but I was like “I don’t know why I can’t buy it”…I always had it in my cart if it was online, and I was like ‘”I’m gonna buy this”, and I never did.’

After telling herself that she could make the jewellery she wanted herself, she began to create her own pieces and her friends began asking her if she was selling them. ‘And then I made jewellery for a few months, and then I stopped because I kinda got bored with just chains and charms…I didn’t do anything on that account (Different Bugs) for a while’,

JAMMY fact: Harris called her brand Different Bugs because of her love for the Beatles! (George Harrison is her fav, Jammy’s too ^*^) And then when she had her epiphany in Summer 2020, in quarantine, she revived Different Bugs and was open for business.

On her ever-growing page, Harris exclaims: ‘It’s crazy! I kind of forget… I look at the numbers and I don’t think about it. I still think that I’m just my own person, I’m my own little bubble and people are kind of looking at me, and I’m like ‘ok, hi everyone!’. But it hasn’t changed anything of my mentality towards making things.’

‘I found an entire album of alternate takes of the same songs that I really liked, and I would listen to it and it was like getting a peak into a different universe. And then I made an entire playlist of all of those different songs, and I named the playlist ‘Different Bugs’, because different Beatles songs.’

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In a plethoric sea of strung pearls, beads and charms With Instagram surfacing the being a breeding explore page ground for almost every day, similitude, it can Harris’ jewellery be hard to set bears a yourself or your charismatic brand apart from uniqueness and an others, and almost scientific plagiarism, complexity that accidental or sets her ‘different deliberate, can bugs’ apart from inevitably occur, as many other... Harris explains:

‘I don’t like to think of it as competition, but it gets to me, honestly, seeing a bunch of other new accounts popping up that’ll come on my explore page, and I’ll see it and be like ‘oh, I did this design two weeks ago’…I don’t want to prevent people from making things, because I think that’s incredible!’ I’m so lucky to have this stupid, crazy mind that makes necklaces and that somebody else sees and they’re like ‘I wanna do that too’. That’s so cool that I have that influence. But you know, stealing somebody else’s artwork, in any way, is disheartening, because everything that I make is so personal to me, and so from [my head] and in my emotions. So, when somebody steals it it’s more than just someone re-creating something that I’ve made. It’s like someone is imitating an emotion that I have.’

Looking at Harris’ creations, you can see how much time and love goes into each piece; the compositions of the beads, charms and chains create s omething comparable to a wearable Dalí meets Kandinsky.

It brings me a lot of joy to just search everywhere to find things that are weird and things that are different, or just gorgeous to look at, like pearls. I found Webkinz charms, and I found a little iPod charm, and I can’t believe that this was in my house the entire time!’

Some of Harris’ favourite beads to use are ‘baroque pearls! Ultra-baroque pearls are really big, shiny and iridescent… I also love Czech glass because it comes in so many different forms. There are these fish that I really like; they’re just little fish and they’re iridescent.’ The dainty beaded spiral, reminiscent of a DNA strand, is a characteristic of Different Bugs jewellery. ‘That started from a pure accident; I was doing doublestranded necklaces and then I was trying to put the crimp bead on it, and then I realised that one of the strands was way curled up and I was like ‘oh, that’s cool! I bet I could put beads on it and make it like a spiral around the necklace’, and I did’.

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At 17 years old, Georgiana Triggs is a business woman, jewellery maker and promanifestor.

Ugly Accessories (@uglyaccessories) is her independent jewellery brand and baby, where she pours her heart and soul into every unique piece. One may ask why one would call their brand ‘Ugly Accessories’, as Triggs’ creations are far faaar away from being ugly, but Triggs acknowledges ‘the juxtaposition: it’s ugly, but is it?’ Triggs started the brand in 2019 ‘really really casually’, not thinking much would come out what started as a passionate hobby. She explains: ‘I went to a jewellery making course with my mum and my grandma, and that was how that sparked! And then I kind of came home and was like “hmmm, maybe I’ll test this out, try and make some little things”. After setting up a Depop shop, to test the waters with her handmade jewellery, Triggs received an overwhelmingly positive response from Depoppers worldwide: ‘When I first opened it was pretty slow that year, but then 2020 April, May, it completely shot up! In the beginning I used to think “Oh, I wonder one day if I’ll just look and I’ll have 1,000 sales and I’ll be like oh my God how did I get here?” and it honestly did. That day it happened, I was like “it’s actually happened!!”

When speaking to Triggs, you can instantly see how invested she is in her business and how hard she works. Ugly Accessories is truly a labour of love. When asked what she loves most about owning a business like Ugly Accessories, Triggs effervescently responds: With luck on her side, an infectious positive energy and an ever-increasing following, Georgiana Triggs is an absolute fucking star and we are living in her world! However, Triggs admits that her narrative and general outlook on life was much different a few years ago to how it is now. ‘It’s kind of a pretty unique story, because basically before I started this I was super depressed. I did nothing with my day, my mental state was terrible. A few years before that my dad died, so I was really going through it. So, I kind of stopped going to school, and then I went to college for 3 weeks or something, but school just didn’t fit with how I wanted to live. And this (Ugly Accessories) just all organically came from that. This has fully been my “let’s fucking crack on with this!”, full steam ahead, making stuff all the time and seeing what I can create from it. Honestly, it’s so crazy that people love it so much. It actually blows my mind!’

‘Honestly, it’s just like everything!! I love the social media aspect, I actually really enjoy the customer service. I really love the customer service and talking to people. Especially with customs and things, that whole “let me know what you want, I’ll sort you out”, I don’t know. Honestly, I also just love making it. I love picking up the beads, I love buying all the stuff I make with, that is so fun!’

One of her loyal customers is the Gen-Z grunge-pop queen Beabadoobee, who has been somewhat of a walking advertisement for Ugly Accessories. Triggs explains: ‘First of all, people think she buys the jewellery. She doesn’t buy the jewellery. I messaged her – I can’t even really remember exactly how it started – and I was like ‘Hi! Oh my God, I love you! Can I send you some jewellery’ and she was like ‘Oh, yeah!’.

And I can’t remember exactly what I sent her but it was like summertime beads, which everyone loved last year, that was like the biggest thing. And then some earrings and stuff. Then I saw her wear it and she wore it all the time, and then I was like “do you want some more?”. That just kind of kept happening and she kept wearing it in her music videos, and I’d be like “oh my God! OH MY GOD!”

And from then on, a beautiful clientbusiness relationship and friendship bloomed between Triggs and Beabadoobe. One could say that their interaction was written in the stars...

Triggs explains how she actually works alongside her mum Samantha, explaining: It isn’t all me. My mum is amazing. My mum ran her own business with my dad, it was a printing and design business. And honestly, I say to her all the time ‘I couldn’t be where I am without you!’.

...When asked if she believes in the power of manifestation, without hesitation, Triggs answers: ‘Yeaaah! I think my mum’s got me into that. And when you have a big death in your life, it puts things into perspective. The things I wrote down did then happen’.

J: What independent brands are you loving at the moment? GT: Rhi Dancey (@rhidancey), love her! And notjusttrash (@notjusttrash)! Hopefully I can fucking meet them one day! J: If you could have a superpower what would it be? GT: I mean, my mind goes straight to invisibility. But that’s so obvious. You can do things, you can mess about with people. But also, maybe because I’m not good at it, to be an extremely fast runner! (laughs) But if I couldn’t run and then I was like ‘hold up, watch this’, and I’m just zooming, I would be ok with that. I feel like one day that would be useful in my day to day life. J: If you could create a custom for anyone, who would it be? GT: Maybe like Rico Nasty or something, because I keep seeing her on TikTok. She’s hype as fuck, I love her music. She’s stunning as well! J: Do you feel lucky? GT: I feel very lucky! I feel so lucky!! I have no words. I feel extremely lucky. But you know, I’ve created that luck with all my little things. And people just receive it so well, they love it. J: What is your favourite jam? GT: The French fancy one, I don’t know what it’s called. J: The Bonne Maman! GT: When my mum saw it she was like “oh look, that’s our jam!”

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by Brianna Moreno by Jasmine Miller-Sauchella

Stable Girl (2020)

Lucite Heart (2020)

...I was 21, and I was like ‘I’ll see how it goes for a year, and if I hate it I’ll go back to school’. And I ended up staying. I love it here! I don’t know how to describe it. The people here are so nice. I’ve never had a big friend group like this. I’ve just made so many really nice connections with people, and it’s so easy to get around.

Brianna (Brie) Moreno

is a 26 year old artist and jewellery maker from Ottawa, Canada. Her playful psychedelia-infused illustrations present a world inhabited by chic girls, mega-ants, handbags and eggs.

After studying Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa for a year, Moreno had ‘a bit of a freak out and was like “oh my God, I’m not gonna get a job with this!” She also explains how she ‘wasn’t doing that much drawing, which is the reason I went to Art School. So, I switched over to OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design).’ After studying Illustration for 2 years, Moreno explains ‘I was only going to defer for a year and then I ended up moving here {to London} for 2 years. You can get a work Visa if you’re under 30, and before that I’d never travelled. I’d never been on a plane!...

It just seemed like to me that I was getting more life experience moving to another country rather than finishing my degree. I have nothing against OCAD; if I could’ve finished the full 4 years, I would of. But it just didn’t work out’. When asked about how she got into Art, Moreno mentions her grandmother’s poignant influence: My grandmother paints. She’s not a painter, but she paints. It’s her hobby. Whenever she was watching me as a kid, that would be our activity that she kinda killed time with while she was watching me. We’d just paint and draw. Moreno admits that there was a time during her adolescence when her passion for art died down, as she reflects ‘I kinda stopped for a bit when I was in middle school. I think most people probably get into sports and other things, and you sort of forget the old hobbies like that’.

But luckily when she was in the 11th grade she rekindled her love for drawing: ‘I was just constantly drawing in my notebooks and not really paying attention to the class. Still managing to get good grades, but really not caring much about anything other than drawing. And yeah, it just sort of snowballed from there. I couldn’t stop thinking about it!’ Moreno’s inspirations at that time came from researching and replicating the work of pioneering psychedelic artists of the 60s and 70s: ‘I remember I was really into Marcel Dzama. I really haven’t looked at his stuff in a while. But, I feel like there was a style of illustration that was going around at the time, that was really popular. What is it called? Like animals morph with other animals sort of thing (laughs). I was just trying to draw a bit psychedelic; like very Yellow Submarine, ‘Pushpin Group’...Just a lot of psychedelic 60s stuff. I don’t really look at that that much anymore, but it was a big influence when I was younger’. She reflects: ‘I think everybody goes through those phases where they copy things in their notebooks, and pick up your own style that way. I think most people kind of learn that way; you have to look at what’s come before!’

Looking at Moreno’s work, one can see this free-flowing, psychededelic influence radiate from her illustrations. Reminiscent of the stunningly sensual and otherworldly technicolour works of Miguel Calatayud (Peter Petrake, 1970), as well as the progressive animations of Peter Foldes (Hunger, 1974), Moreno’s work is visually straightforward, yet possesses a further subtext created by recurring motifs. This makes her work instantly recognisable and digestible, as well as being such a whimsical, sweet treat for the eyes. On her creative process, Moreno explains her preferred artistic medium: ‘Newsprint (paper) with felt-tips! I really love the way the newsprint absorbs the felt tip! I’ve tried so many other alternatives, and I’ve never found something that’s had that look before. It almost gives that effect that it’s a risograph print. It definitely won’t hold up over time, but I’m not that precious about it. Because a lot of the work that I make is for print anyways, so I see it the same way you would a digital drawing – it will last in a digital form, which is fine for me... ...I’ve also been working with a lot of the line drawings that I do with pencil, just on regular paper’.

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Fate (2020)

Moreno’s work has a beautiful equilibrium between colour and the subjects’ form, and Moreno admits that she prefers to stick to a default palette of ‘greens and pinks, but like salmony pinks. Browns, like an orangey-red and black. I like those colours. It’s kind of bad, I do steer away from some colours; I do need to get better at using them. Like pinky-reds I really don’t like that much in drawings, but if it’s an orangey-red I prefer it. A yellowish-green. And these are all colours that I see my friends use, and I think it looks wonderful, but I just for some reason can’t use them! But I need to break through that and experiment a bit more’. As aforementioned, Moreno’s work features recurring motifs such as eggs, handbags and ants. She explains: ‘I think it comes down to their shapes. I find they sit well in a composition. Especially the egg, recently, I found I can fit into different things. I fit it into this woman’s stomach and it looked like she was pregnant, so it kind of made sense –fertility, eggs. I know it’s a bit cheesy, but when you see it in a drawing you can kind of let it live without thinking too much about it and its meaning.’

Moreno is a well-loved and featured artist with the London-based independent comics publishers Breakdown Press (@breakdownpress) who ‘do a mix of contemporary comic artists, as well as they publish English translations of a lot of Japanese mangas that were around in the 60s’. Her latest venture is writing a children’s book, which will go out to print this year. In addition to her artwork, Moreno has been making the most charming little dangle rings . She started making the rings in 2018, and ever since then she has been making them inbetween print commissions. Q&A JAMMY: Do you feel lucky? BM: Yeah, 100% - I feel so lucky! (laughs) It’s hard, because I’m trying to think in a smaller sense of just the basic human needs, and I have all of them. And I feel really lucky to have them. I feel it would be a disservice to not acknowledge that. Considering everything that’s going on in the world, I’m very lucky. J: Do you like jam and if so, what flavour is your favourite? BM: Oh my God, YES, I love jam! (laughs) I don’t have jam enough, to be honest. It’s funny, because my boyfriend has marmalade on toast every single morning and I think I would be stoked if I had that. But does marmalade count as a jam? Because I do love marmalade. Ooooh, actually, fig jam. That’s my favourite. It’s soooo nice!!

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Special thanks to Moonie B. Jones (@mooneb.jones) Lois gardner (@doodles.2002) HAPPY (@PEIYUUUUE) UGLY ACCESSORIES/Georgiana Triggs (@UGLYACCESSORIES) Sharada Tolton (@SIRENSHORES) Mia(@PASTELDECUMPLEE) Bailey (@77_8_77) Victor Ciobotaru (@DOOMDOGLVL999) Brianna Moreno (@BOOGERBRIE) Önem (@betisis_) Matthew (@afffirmations) Graphix Slayer (@graphixslayer) Dave Monis (@hometownboredom) Michaela Finn (@kaylaafinn) Marie Gintz (@bellughju)

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