Cicero introduced the concept of “cultura animi or “cultivation of the soul,” which is the origin of the modern term “culture”. For Cicero, culture was not about accumulating possessions but about forming virtuous, thoughtful citizens through education, drawing a parallel between cultivating the soul and cultivating a field through agriculture.
Jobner is a cultural interpreter. Emerging from the terrains of Rajasthan, its breadth is informed by the cultural movements across geographies. Influences that are distilled to the Saar, expressed in a manner that evokes sensibilities, that are composite, derivatives and novel.
Jewellery becomes the innate expression for Jobner, constituted of Radhika and Jitesh. They further unfold this through objects and experiences. The unfolding of lores initiate from an interest that pronounces beyond a structural inquiry, transitioning between space and time, the essence is caressed. Through the years of human existence, an imprint exists into the realm of empty landscapes.
Often carried by the art, the tales sustain and travel beyond time, in pockets of air that they blow to another land, over there few leaves move and the seasons change - a bird flies and migrates. Pollination of culture, and movements of art through a humane spirit resonates to the process of Jobner.
With the previous two collections, Renaissance and Baroque, Jobner has been interested beyond the translation of facets of these movements into developing an interpretation from an Indian vocabulary. The recent Study III engages in studying the spirit of Pre-Mughal era of Rajasthan’s Architecture, revitalising these forms, proportions and volumes for contemporary wearables.
