Extremity 2019-2020
I find hands one of the most beautiful body parts; they are useful and elegant at the same time. But, as a jewellery designer you can get a lot of cuts and bruises when you are working, something I try to avoid as much as possible. It’s also a great fear of mine to lose my hands or at least not being able to use them anymore!
In these pieces I try to repair or at least patch-up these broken hands and put lost parts together to give them a new purpose, an attempt to fight my own fear of damaging my hands. The biggest part of the pieces is hand sown, therefor I need my own hands to repair these broken ones. I use scars, syringes and stitches (things you would like to keep away from your hands) as decorative details.
(textile, latex, steel)
I find hands one of the most beautiful body parts; they are useful and elegant at the same time. But, as a jewellery designer you can get a lot of cuts and bruises when you are working, something I try to avoid as much as possible. It’s also a great fear of mine to lose my hands or at least not being able to use them anymore!
In these pieces I try to repair or at least patch-up these broken hands and put lost parts together to give them a new purpose, an attempt to fight my own fear of damaging my hands. The biggest part of the pieces is hand sown, therefor I need my own hands to repair these broken ones. I use scars, syringes and stitches (things you would like to keep away from your hands) as decorative details.
(textile, latex, steel)
