Who Is Chloe Fitzpatrick? How Did The TikToker Create Bacteria Jewelry?

This might one of the grossest things you would hear but Chloe Fitzpatrick, a popular TikTok creator has created bacteria jewelry that has made the internet go gaga over the young creator. Chloe Fitzpatrick is a Scottish TikTok player who is going viral for her jewelry made from her own bacteria that has welcomed the creator with millions of views. If you’re curious about this bacteria jewelry, read on to know more about Chloe Fitzpatrick and the jewelry that made her famous on the internet.

Chloe Fitzpatrick TikTok designer creates jewelry from bacteria

The internet is going crazy after a jewelry designer from Dundee made a bunch of weird jewelry with bacteria. Chloe Fitzpatrick has received over 20 million views on the social media platform for her videos documenting the process of making her unusual jewelry.

By growing bacteria in a petri dish and then sewing them into pendants and bracelets, Fitzpatrick creates unique pieces of wearable art that only look like they could be real jewelry.

In one video, Chloe shows how she uses acid to dissolve the bacteria into a liquid and then puts it inside some glass beads. She then puts the beads in an oven for three hours at 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93 C), which makes them harden into a solid shape.

In another video, she shows how she uses an ultrasonic cleaner to remove any remaining bacteria from the beads before cutting them into tiny pieces and putting them inside some other glass objects like rings or earrings.

How Did TikToker Create Bacteria Jewelry?

She created the pieces in collaboration with two other organizations: the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, and the James Hutton Institute. They cultured bacteria from her body as well as plants to produce unique works they all contributed to making bacterium unique in a way to showcase it beyond the science labs and containers.

“I wanted to help people appreciate bacteria,” Chloe told a few publications. “It’s all around us – inside and on our bodies, on plants, everything we touch. I wanted to help people acknowledge it, as a piece of nature and as a piece of art,” she said

The recent graduate wants to expand her technique into creating actual, wearable jewelry. She uses bacteria sourced from the buyer.  “It would be really interesting,” she said. “Everyone’s bacteria would be a different color – white, orange, pink – I’d quite like to expand the technique into wearable pieces since at this point it is solely art.” “It has the potential of becoming an environmentally friendly alternative to toxic chemical dyes and pigments, this is something I’d like to explore in future projects.”

 The bacteria samples are covered and allowed to multiply into colored colonies for about a week at room temperature. She then isolates particular color’s in a new dish so they can multiply further. The color’s can be used to dye materials like cotton clothing or resign jewelry sustainably. “When you press your hands and feet into the agar plates, you get lots of different reds, oranges, and yellows. “Everyone’s bacteria is so different and develops differently,” she said.

Chloe Fitzpatrick Claims The Bacteria Jewelry to be Absolutely Safe

She said: “Everything is tested thoroughly to make sure the bacteria have been killed off. “I want to test the limits of this process as there’s so much I can do with it.

“I wanted to be part of the BioArt movement, which is a collaboration of art and science. “I believe the art world is heading in that direction since there are a lot of possibilities and it’s not been fully explored yet. Examples of her work are currently on display in an exhibition of BioArt at Kulanshi Art Centre in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Chloe will be exhibiting her work at the University’s Degree show. The public is invited. Incredibly inspired by the growing BioArt and Design movement, Chloe found a way to add living elements to her work. In order to form her own pigments, she collected different living creatures including herself and plants, then allowed them to grow bacteria colonies.

Her final bacteria jewelry project has won her the prestigious Sir James Black award for her outstanding contributions to research & scholarship. She shares her design journey with 106,000 followers on TikTok and some of her videos have even garnered a million likes!

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Throughout the development of the process, she was in constant contact with scientists from Dundee University to ensure that everything went smoothly. The experimental process is safe.