Absence

Prezentacje 2019 - Prostheseuses, competition, Warsaw, 2019

sterling silver, silk yarn

Absence recalls at the same time a void and the presence that filled it.

An organ, a limb, some body, a memory.

As a prothesis is custom-made to its owner so this piece was made - and in this particular case, it fits the hand that created it, to then be given away, in a symbolic cycle of gain and loss.

But a prothesis made to a healthy hand is in itself a contradiction: an element that is meant to be felt as strange, that instead of facilitate, disables the movement.

An element that is meant to stand out, like a jewelry piece - and as a jewelry piece, this pendant celebrates the rebirth: an inadequate element that only fits oneself becomes an adornment for someone else, as a symbol of our infinite capability of reborn, improve and turn the disadvantages into triumphs.