~Elt

Sruli Recht installs another moment in states of decay -

The first Buckless Belt is a completely Icelandic product, from the skin to the hand-made vertical-feed boxes, in colours flesh, bone, ash and rust and in widths of 3, 4 and 5 centimetres.

Utilising a Unique Feed-Teeth method of fastening, and cut using a needle fine jet of water, this is Metal Detector Invisible.

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~Elt is an exploration in removing the function from the function. When the clasp or buckle is removed from the belt itself, it loses its place, and becomes a strip of hard skin, not even long enough to knot. In this result the skin is incised to give the same ability as clasped and interlocked fingers.

In designing belts the challenge came that there must be a way to do away with the buckle, and create a symmetric flat strong tie, without any additions.
Looking at the woven fingers of my locked hand pent in thought, the idea was found.
Similarly, watching the rocks erode on a waterfall, the power of the waters persistence was remarkable. In researching perfect cut methods of lazer or die, the water cut method explores new and natural applications.

~Elt aims to step backward away from the modern decorative whilst utilising the modern rococo in a robo-coco application.

The future is the machined.

My own blood gets on everything I make - one day auctioneers may gene test my work for authentication

I was a very detached child... living partly in this world.. and mostly in my head.

Sruli Recht- Made to measure - Jerusalem 1979
Migrated like a broken Sea Bird, Johannesburg South Africa - Melbourne Australia - European Nomad landed in Reykjavik Iceland

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Sruli Recht graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor Degree in Fashion Design in 2002, and receives his Design Honors Degree in 2008.


In the past 8 years he split himself between -

Film and Video installation costume
Many Many Made to Measure projects
Pattern cutter and show-piece maker for Alexander McQueen
In top secret research and development for high tech fabric developers
Head designer and consultant for fashion labels in Iceland and Australia

?and his products, garments and artwork have been exhibited through Asia, Australia, Scandinavia, Russia the Americas and Europe.?

post script - all entries are solid real world objects and not 3D renders.