A heavily oxidized and weathered piece - bracelet watch done in copper and black steel from Kapadesigns. Was looking at this, and it definitely caught my eye, but made me think about something that's been coming up more and more often. It seems like Americans are in a constant search for authenticity. Not authenticity as 'what's real and what's a knockoff', but rather true authenticity - a sense of identity, of being real. A lot of people work in the office, a lot of people work in the retail or service industry. We do what we don't identify with and has no cultural relevance to us, or who we are. It's necessary, of course, but being "false" so much - keeping up a double fascade for your boss, coworkers, etc. - leaves us searching for something that "looks" real.
Hence the oxidized pieces, the distressed jeans, so on so forth.. I wonder how many people nowadays have jeans that were really distressed by their own wear, pieces that are broken down because of the love and how often they were used.
