Materials: Ebony, oak, nickel silver and chinese cashew lacquer (egg shell technique)
Dimensions: 7.5cm x 7cm x 1,5cm
Pendant formed with different woods joined together forming one piece which serves as base for a lacquered metal shape formed with three soldered slabs. As in an orchestra, different components united form a planned unit.
Photo credit: Marcos Zimmermann
Valeria Elina Dowding
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I was always fascinated by modes of expression that can involve most of the senses. Creating jewels in metal opened for me the possibility to combine several things: the exploration of metals and the pleasure of discovering its reactions in reply to different possible interventions (made by hand with intention, with tools, with fire; or by accident or chance and impossible to repeat voluntarily). To discover its qualities, of hardness, ductility, change of state, textures is a very magical and sensual exploration. To follow this path until the final result is, in this case, to reach the object-jewel. Anything can act as a trigger; the starting point can be a wave, a map, a constellation, a plant, a sand dune, an axe or an eel... What fascinates me is the process in itself the act of "making" this object or jewel independently from the final result. The final result also has something unexpected, surprising and unique for me. I think that maybe because of that they can be called "one-of-a-kind". Each piece is unique with its particularities, of weight, size, form, texture and colour. It is what makes it natural that each one can correspond or acquire significance when worn by one particular person, almost as if the jewel had been made especially for that person (who chooses it) and not for another.
Materials: Ebony, oak, nickel silver and chinese cashew lacquer (egg shell technique)
Dimensions: 7.5cm x 7cm x 1,5cm
Pendant formed with different woods joined together forming one piece which serves as base for a lacquered metal shape formed with three soldered slabs. As in an orchestra, different components united form a planned unit.
Photo credit: Marcos Zimmermann
Valeria Elina Dowding
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I was always fascinated by modes of expression that can involve most of the senses. Creating jewels in metal opened for me the possibility to combine several things: the exploration of metals and the pleasure of discovering its reactions in reply to different possible interventions (made by hand with intention, with tools, with fire; or by accident or chance and impossible to repeat voluntarily). To discover its qualities, of hardness, ductility, change of state, textures is a very magical and sensual exploration. To follow this path until the final result is, in this case, to reach the object-jewel. Anything can act as a trigger; the starting point can be a wave, a map, a constellation, a plant, a sand dune, an axe or an eel... What fascinates me is the process in itself the act of "making" this object or jewel independently from the final result. The final result also has something unexpected, surprising and unique for me. I think that maybe because of that they can be called "one-of-a-kind". Each piece is unique with its particularities, of weight, size, form, texture and colour. It is what makes it natural that each one can correspond or acquire significance when worn by one particular person, almost as if the jewel had been made especially for that person (who chooses it) and not for another.