Dealing with emotional pain

Dealing with emotional pain

story Dealing with emotional pain Feeling emotional abandoned by your parents is painful. Somehow you have to find a way to get over that, how to turn the pain into gain. PagaraNecklace – earthenware nails, gold leaf, iron wire, linen – ?? – 2013...
Shifts

Shifts

story Shifts You know that feeling…a foreboding grows. You can’t tell yet what it is, but you feel uncomfortable, unsettled. Slowly but surely, the threat approaches. ‘There is something in the air’ necklace/objectporcelain, glass and metal beads,...
Moments in life

Moments in life

story Moments in life The ups and downs of life… two sides of a coin: like day and night, like front and back, like yin and yang. ‘Tapestry of moments in life’ necklace/objectporcelain, hemp wire, linen, ironh 54 x w 34 x d 2 cm2015 The front of this piece...
The Soul Mate

The Soul Mate

story The Soul Mate An amulet for a soul mate.Symbols only you and I understand.Memories from an everlasting bond… I thought. One of the symbols: gold tipped antennas… always connected.‘Friends for life.’ Berserker Amulet 1 The Soulmate pendant, objectmixed mediah 50...
Growing still, still growing

Growing still, still growing

story Growing still, still growing In 2013 artists from the Dutch Caribbean islands were selected to join the group exhibition ‘Tropisch Koninkrijk’ in museum ‘de Fundatie’ in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Besides some wearable art pieces exposed in iron frames, I made an...
Animita

Animita

story Animita An animita is a little memorial built in commemoration of people killed at road accidents, sprinkled all over Chilean roadside, as a comforting transit for the soul before it leaves to go to heaven. In 2014 I signed up for a ‘jewelry exchange’. The...