Blue ribbon bangle, an example of Yuri Kawanabe's anodised aluminium jewellery pieces, represents a refinement of her design and problem-solving skills, as it was worked from a single sheet of aluminium. Writer John McPhee describes Kawanabe's series of ribbon bangles as 'wild explorations of the nature of jewellery owing much to the traditions of Black Africa and Polynesia,' and compares them with giant springs or parts of flowers.(1)

1. McPhee, John. 'Ancient art's new Broome'. The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 1997, p.15.