To Carry with You

Key question

As part of my bachelor thesis, I asked myself: how can the emotional feelings of a place be
transported into a piece of jewelry?

Personal background

Whenever I arrive at a new place, I choose a spot close to nature that empowers me. Having these spots creates a feeling of comfort and safety in an otherwise often overwhelming environment.
Therefore, these places resemble my personal safe spaces and are charged with the emotions I experienced during those times.

Technical solution

Using the techniques of stenciling, hand carving and embossing, I transformed these places into my own interpretations of them. By constantly reacting to the material, as well as listing to my intuition, the character of the places evolved and became something new.
Therefore, the brooches serve as an invitation not only to see the places described, but also to imagine your own strengthening places within them.