UNTIL DEATH DO US PART @ SCHMUCK 2022 - ALLIAGES by Alliages

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Until Death Do Us Part Alex Kinsley Vey / Canada

Necklace “View from the Pier 03”, 2018 Steel, spray paint, cotton cord, sterling silver CNC Laser Cutting, Hand fabrication

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Hamilton, my home on the shore of Lake Ontario has traditionally been a steel producing centre. Despite the industry having died down in recent decades, its industrial activity is still apparent. The View from the Pier series of necklaces examine the geographies of the city and reference my time growing up there, and the impact this place had on me.

The culture of Hamilton was rough, the attitude grimy, and those characteristics greatly influenced me. Baseball bats, Metal shows and bus fights all existed alongside the backdrop of heavy industry. The working-class ethos and attitudes of my hometown shaped me into who I am today – for better or worse.

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Until Death Do Us Part Amir Nassiri / Iran

Necklace “Deep memorie”, 2021

Necklace “Deep memories”, 2021

Copper,Aluminum,iron,Seashell,glass beads,silver,Polaroidfilm

Copper,Brass,Aluminum,iron,Seashell, Pearl,Polaroidfilm

Hand drawings on aluminum, Polaroid photo took by Artist,

Chasing on aluminum, Assemblage

Chasing on Copper, Assemblage

Hand fabricated

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Amir Nassiri / Iran I like taking pictures of people, not just because of their mood, but because I can watch their pictures without getting involved in a conversation with them. As a child, I watched family albums in solitude and weaved stories for photos and people inside. I like to cut the picture that I took and put aside the extra things to keep what is more important, which usually are portraits or objects that tell the story and make the memory more vivid. Every Polaroid photo is unique, like a piece of jewelry that keeps the image of the person I love in itself forever. In this collection, I have used techniques that increase my focus on the subject, the process of the work is gradual and accurate, like drawing by pencil on a metal surface and chasing, that with each hammer hit and chisel movement on metal, and I adjust the impact based on my feelings. I enjoy telling stories; there is a memory in each jewel piece that will be with me as long as I live. From personal memory to collective memory.

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Until Death Do Us Part Anna Börsöck / Hungary

Brooch “Pineapple?”, 2021 tin can, nickel silver, ash, found gold engagement ring, pvc foil

Hand cutted, recycled materials, bezel setting

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Pineapple? Brooch “Until death do us part” became an empty phrase, the meaning has changed. It's hard to take seriously. Nothing is long-term. In today’s uncertainty, we don’t know the next step. Everything can only be interpreted in the present. It is only important as long as the massage is clear. Only our objects remember us. The preserved moment in my brooch consists of three components. The pineapple box is a mass product, just one of many and a sweet taste of a memory. The unopened cover hides the tension from the viewer. It symbolizes the line between the known and the unknown. The message is behind it, revealing it to the wearer. The box hides ash and a found wedding ring, symbolizing the passing of time and renewal. This is the beginning, the promise itself. A year ago, I found the ring while walking in a beautiful park. I wonder whose it was. I wonder what it meant. Did they stay together? Only the ring left here. The brooch commemorates the unknown answer.

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Until Death Do Us Part Anna Talbot / Norway

Necklace “So Lonesome I Could Cry”, 2021 Upcycled cookie tin, aluminium, spray paint, brass, silk ribbon, silver

All hand pierced and hand painted

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A large scale necklace made during lockdown - when everything was so quiet and things felt very lonely - walking the streets it felt like everyone had left, abandoned ship and maybe the wild animals had taken over, rewilding the city.

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Until Death Do Us Part Anne Léger / Norway

Necklace “Remind Me”, 2021

Necklace “#gift#gift#gift#, 2021

Upcycled wood, copper, enamel, silver, stål

Gold, wood, copper, enamel, silver, stål

Wood structure, enameled copper, patinated copper

Wood structure, enameled copper, patinated silver, recycled and forged wedding rings

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Anne Léger / Norway Remind Me "Until death do us part" is written in braille on the patinated copper plate on the backside of the necklace. This text inverted on the enameled plate on the front of the jewel becomes readable again when standing in front of a mirror and will thus be a reminder to itself. I will explore the reflections between the visual and the tactile, the notion of visible and invisible, as well as the reflections related to what we are or have become blind to, to what extent and in what ways one has the opportunity or the need to be reminded of it.

#gift#gift#gift# #gift (Norwegian word for poison): Substance which in small doses causes injury or death in living organisms. No substance is absolutely poisonous, that is to say, poisonous regardless of how small the dose is. #gift: To be married is called "gift" in Norwegian. #gift: The English word for a gift, a present.

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Until Death Do Us Part Anne-Marie Hugot / France

Jeanne ring

Marie Ring

porcelain inlaid in a brass ring

porcelain inlaid in a brass ring PRICE ON REQUEST

When we get married we rarely think of death or illness, yet I witnessed these terrible events not long ago. I was able to observe through the suffering of my friends how losing or risking losing the loved one was a tear. I also saw their trauma and their ability to get up, for their children, for herself too. These women did not imagine themselves so strong. It's called resiliency. The loss of a loved one is excruciating pain. We never get over it. Yet we can transcend this pain. This is what made me want to create this collection of rings. To show off the being that we have become, despite the injuries.

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Until Death Do Us Part Annelieke Landré / Netherlands

Face mask “Fake ID”, 2020 Stainless steel, 925 silver oxidised hand fabricated

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In a culture where manipulated images are the norm, our selfimage is under great pressure. Perfect lives parade by on our screens, but our own existence doesn't seem so perfect at all. Personal identity had its basis in the attachment to the parents, attachment to place and age. Today this has become more of a product of virtual and digital communication. If identity is constructed more by form and less by content and relationships there is a danger that we will become even more uprooted more removed from the body. Parallel to our real lives are now also the lives we lead online: on facebook, instagram. Human identity is largely formed by playing roles, adopting certain attitudes in social situations. For an authentic identity development situations are needed in which you do not have to play a role and can simply be yourself. In the digital age we are in a constant battle with the digital other and we get further and further away from ourselves until we have forgotten who we were.

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Until Death Do Us Part Carmen Lopez / Spain

Brooch “Memory of the ephemeral I”, 2021

Brooch “Memory of the ephemeral II”, 2021

Brooch “Memory of the ephemeral III”, 2021

Enamel, patinate copper, recycle plastic and dental steel

Enamel copper and patinate

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My latest collection of pieces are time capsules containing specific objects. When I read the title of the call "Until death do us part" I got the idea of encapsulating or capturing, in this case, feelings and emotions. Family losses mark life in an invisible and melancholic way. Wandering through it with those absences give new value to everything that surrounds us, nest in our memory and remind us of our ephemeral passage through the world. 1914. Unknown family photograph, the same components as my family, four sisters and two brothers. The image hypnotized me. I made three enameled brooches with it, double faced. Structures and images that refer to the old reliquaries or medallions with miniature portraits.

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Until Death Do Us Part Charlotte Vanhoubroeck / Belgium

Bracelet “N° 4 - Un bracelet avec le portrait du Roi, entouré de brillants, tour de bras avec modèle, gourmette avec chaînon en brillants”, 2021. Sterling silver, glass. Soldering, glass casting, glass printing. NOT FOR SALE

Charlotte Vanhoubroeck / Belgium For her ongoing collection Stilled Sentiments Charlotte is investigating and reactivating the lost sentimental jewellery of Belgium’s first queen Louise-Marie d’Orléans. These pieces reveal secrets of the myth about Louise and will eventually, all together, construct a contemporary miniature museum of Louise’s lonely mind. Jewellery piece N° 4 once was a medallion that Louise was given as a wedding gift by her king. The piece displays his miniature portrait and many state portraits, prints and statues of Louise depict her wearing the medallion. It was a symbol of love and marital loyalty that this queen has worn for her king Until Death Did Them Part. Jewellery piece N° 54 once was a bracelet. It carried a miniature portrait as well, only this time it depicted Louise’s son, Belgium’s very first prince. Unfortunately, the child never made it to its first birthday. Mother and child Parted too soon by Death, and a grieving Louise had to learn how to honor the infinite void in her life.

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Until Death Do Us Part Claudia Steiner / Austria

Necklace “side by side_seperatedtogether” 925 Silver oxidized, Nylon-Silk Threat

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Claudia Steiner / Austria SideBySide "I found her on a night of fire and noise Wild bells rang in a wild sky I knew from that moment on I'll love her till the day that I died And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow On and endless night, silver star spangled She was given to me to put things right And I stacked all my accomplishments beside her Still I seemed so obsolete and small I found God and all His devils inside her In my bed she cast the blizzard out A mock sun blazed upon her head So completely filled with light she was Her shadow fanged and hairy and mad Our love-lines grew hopelessly tangled" copyright: Songtext by Nick Cave

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Until Death Do Us Part Codie Decottignies / France

Ring “Fragment”, 2021 Fossilized mammoth ivory, fossilized dinosaur bone, tanzanian red sapphire and titanium Hand fabrication, claw setting, rivet

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This sentence is usually meant to be said at a wedding, but I think these words can also be said to someone close to you that you love. These words mean to me a fight, a job, a battle to keep our loved ones close to us, and tells us that the only thing that can take us away from them is death. It's a long-term job. By saying this sentence, you commit yourself to invest in the relationship. The work that I am submitting for this theme represents the day when death wanted to separate me from my loved ones. In the jewel "Fragment" All the elements represent a part of my body. I use materials offered by the death of a living being: Fossilized dinosaur bones which represents the spinal cord by its honeycomb look, the whiteness of the fossilized mammoth ivory represents bones, red sapphires represents the blood and the titanium is the same material used for surgery, and implants “Fragment” is a piece of my memory, an extract from my life, a portion of my history.

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Until Death Do Us Part Dania Chelminsky / Israel

Pendant “Inside Out 1”, 2021

Pendant “Inside Out 2”, 2021

Pendant “Inside Out 3”, 2021

Oxidized Copper, cold enamel, cotton thread

Hand fabrication

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The death of loved ones. Overflowed. Looking inward. I intensify a moment of disruption and create cracked vessels exposing inner nerve endings. I reveal these internal delicate organs which are sensitive to stimuli that impact my body and soul.

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Until Death Do Us Part David Walker / Australia

Hand piece/Ring “Departure Lounge/Memento Mori”, 2021 925 silver, stainless steel, nylon Hand fabricated

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“(Until) death do us part” is usually associated with the end of a marriage through the death of a partner but it can be applied to any aspect of life that involves depth of feeling, passion, or intensity, that is at some point ended. Death is also associated with grief, sadness, and regret, so it is a consolation that we have birth and rebirth as forms of renewal that take us into a hopeful future. The exhibition title also reminded me of the phrase “Memento Mori” advising that we must all die and that we should make the most of what life we have.

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Until Death Do Us Part Deimezi Xenia / Greece

Necklace ”Bondages and fake treasures”, 2021

Brooch “Bondage 1”, 2021

Leather,acrylic color

Leather, acrylic color, steel

Coloring,sketching

Coloring

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SOLD

Bondages and fake treasures love brings You feel happy and complete Safe and full of bliss but look again…. is this the real thing?

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Until Death Do Us Part Deniz Turan / Turkey

Brooch,Pendant,Wall Piece “Civil Disobedience”, 2021 Copper, Brass, Paper, Paint, Stainless Steel, Thread Hand Fabrication, Hand Cutted, Analog Collage, Soldering, Rivet, Painting

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Old photographs always impress me. Sometimes, I go to a second-hand bookseller and look at the dusty photos that have been laid about in a box. Smiles and looks of people who passed away from this world long time ago... unclaimed photos that belongs to two lovers or a big family... they are always sad. I think about these people’s lifes who don’t have a place in a one’s family album any more and became forlorn memories. I write new stories for them. They continue to live in another form and story even if their voice,words and breath were depleted. “Civil Disobedience” is a work from the serie ” The Long And Short Of It” that I tell such stories. Perhaps in real life, this soldier who has never seen his loved ones again, has no dramatic end in my story. He was a romantic man and believed in peace. He refused the war, returned to the land of his birth and grew roses in his garden.

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Until Death Do Us Part Einav Benzano / France - Israel

Ring “Nature morte”/ “Still Life”, 2021

Silver 925, Cotton ribbon,Cotton thread

Fine silver thread,Silver 925,Oxide, Red thread

Soldering, Embroidery,Crochet

Melting, Soldering, Embroidery

Photo: Laurent David-Larmet

Neck piece made of 3 independent parts, 2021

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Einav Benzano / France - Israel

Until death do us part… The covid has brought us all to the same starting point. Almost. It can happen to all of us. Covid and the death threat helped us realize we are all one, part of the same entity. This is an omni threat on our physical health, our mental state, our freedom, our community, nature, our movement and on our ability to choose. I exercise acceptance. Radical acceptance. ‫ אני‬/ ME The word ANI in Hebrew, my mother tongue, meaning ME. Each letter is expressed in a massive, sculpted way yet shivering and almost losing control. This work consists of three letters in Hebrew, read from right to left. Together they form one word. ANI. One sequence of these three parts. The chain is made of a textile ribbon with the word ME embroidered in high density and intensity in the three languages that constitute my life: Hebrew, French and English. Now melted into one sequence. reminding myself that even when death hovers over, I AM ALIVE.

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Until Death Do Us Part Elli Xippa / Greece

Pendant Pantyhose, glue, leather, wood, wax thread. Mixed techniques

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Sometimes life is what separates us, not death. Someone who is physically absent can be present in our soul, in our thoughts, even in our decisions, in our fun and sorrow. I am amused, I hear their laughter, their remarks, their jokes. They accompany me, they are around me. Sometimes I hide from them, I do not want them to be with me, they wickedly wink at me, I know they see me, but silently, they respect me. Love is a bond, it is not severed with death. Death, no, does not separate us!

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Until Death Do Us Part Erle Nemvalts / Estonia

Crown “Heaven sent”,/ 2020 iron casting

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Death is the only thing that is truly ours. Awareness of our mortality defines us humans. Everything else can be taken away from us, but not that. Being aware of death gives life a meaning. But what to do if you have accidentally felt that "truly yours" but you are still destined to live on? Does such an experience inspire ascension to new heights, or does it hinder further life and overshadow events and experiences that "do not belong to us"?

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Until Death Do Us Part Fruzsi Fekete / Hungary

Necklace “Fragments of memory”, 2021

Brooch “Fragments of memory”, 2021

Necklace “Fragments of memory”, 2021

Gold plated brass, broken candle

Classical jewellery techniques, handmade fabrication

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The original idea for the jewellery was born at a Jorge Manilla workshop at the Budapest Jewellery Week 2019, the theme was self-portrait. I have developed the theme and made the first jewellery in the series for this competition. I reflected on how my family, who have large impact on who I have become. I came to the conclusion that the candle symbolizes the time I spent with my family. The candle is there when we celebrate. We can even make a wish on our birthday if we manage to blow out the candle. But the candle is also there when we say goodbye to someone and when we remember them. In Catholic churches, the burning candles represent both the flame of faith and eternal life for the faithful. Hungarian folklore says that everyone has a burning candle in heaven, and as long as it burns, you live. The candle accompanies a person through life, and plays just as significant and symbolic a role at a christening as it does on a birthday cake, next to the dying or at the funeral.

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Until Death Do Us Part Gabriela Nirino / Argentina - USA

Necklace, “Walking Together”, 2021 Wood, gauze, paint, blood, magnet, cord

Necklace, “The Miracles”, 2021 Wood, gauze, paint, blood, cord Carving, painting

Pendants and pins, “The Amulets”, 2021 Wood, bronze, steel, paint, cord Carving, painting, construction

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I was inspired by one of the most popular devotions in Argentina, Gauchito Gil. He is a humble, unoficial pagan saint. There are hundreds of his sanctuaries on the side of roads, improvised constructions. People leave offerings that represent the gratitude of the faithfull . He was executed and his blood is believed to have healing powers.I created my own one. Death did some of us part already. I walked and walked. I picked up fallen branches. Obsessively. I scabbled, smothed, sanded, hollowed, flared. Cut myself (and bleed). Caressing the stems I built my sanctuaries. Left my offerings.I hope more people arrive, that we can be together again. If death do us part, love bring us together. I'll keep offering the prayers for you to pick them up wherever you are.

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Until Death Do Us Part Hanna Kostiainen / Finland

Hand jewellery, What if it was Self-defense?, 2021 Gauze, mouliné thread, carnelian beads, safety pin. 15x10x3cm wrapped embroidery

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What if it was Self-defense? "I’m so sorry. It won’t happen again. I promise, this is the last time. . . We’ll fix this. No more.” Years of gas lighting, emotional and physical abuse lead to a dead end eventually. Every stitch is a jab, a nag and a slap experienced during toxic and unhealthy relationship. Every glistening bead is a sore memory that still hurts. There are good times and there are bad times, they layer upon each other. Sometimes it will bleed through. The worst experiences are the best hidden. The latest is the one, that is most likely visible. Unfortunately, the result of domestic violence is often fatal, if not intervened. Sometimes there might be a tiny wish and whisper; Death, do us apart. No artist was harmed in the process.

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Until Death Do Us Part Hilde Dramstad / Norway

Necklace “The night of May”, 2020

Necklace “The night of April”, 2020

Necklace “The night of March”, 2020

Silver, formica, steel, enamel paint, nylon cord

Sewing, knitting

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The titles of the necklaces indicate three days when something dramatic happened. We have all read about car accidents when the driver seems to deliberately have given up the control of the car . Sometimes actions of a desperate, jealous person. I knew such a young man,- married for ten years He drove into a rock wall with a raging speed after a quarrel. He had no entension to survive. His wife was in a car right behind him,and watched the love of her life turn into bits of colours, metal and fabric. Red,blue and yellow. Jealousy became a weapon, a poison and a spinning tarantella dance .

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Until Death Do Us Part Janna Gregonis / USA

Brooch “Floor 4”, 2019

Brooch “Floor 3”, 2019

Brooch “Floor 2”, 2019

Brass, Linoleum

Fabrication and inlay

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During Post War America floors were covered in inexpensive patterns mimicking luxurious carpets with magnificent colors and patterns. Often overlooked and viewed as utilitarian I have extracted the colors and patterns from the flooring to create the brooches. They are created as a reaction to the growing consumerism of the world.

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Until Death Do Us Part Jason Stein / USA

Ring/Sculptural Object “Self-Destruct Mechanism #1”, 2021

Ring/Sculptural Object “Self-Destruct Mechanism #2”, 2021

Brass, Found Objects, Semi-Precious Gemstones

Fabrication, Laser-Cutting, CAD, Stone-Setting

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The central theme I explore in my work is the idea of control: in the physical world around us and within our own consciousness. I’m fascinated by the physical means of control we encounter and the overt and covert influence of the structures and systems of everyday existence that modify our experiential reality. With these pieces, I seek to explore the nature of my unconscious mind, and create physical reinterpretations of the structures of my internal mental landscape that represent a re-constructed reality. The internal struggle and battle for control and an understanding of our perceived sense of identity, history, and self-worth can be seen as a form of internal warfare, set against the backdrop of an ever-changing volatile social and political climate that we all must navigate. By taking one's innermost fears and insecurities and creating objects that can be worn and displayed, one is able to gain control and understanding of ones past and chart a course forward into the future.

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Until Death Do Us Part Juan Harnie / Belgium

Necklace “EXT26”, 2020

Necklace “EXT27”, 2020

Necklace “EXT28”, 2020

Textile, latex, rope, sewing thread.

Hand and machine stitching, adding latex layer by layer for aesthetical purposes and to prevent unraveling.

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My hands are my most precious body parts. I like the way they look and because I’m an artist I need them to create my art. I have a big fear of damaging my hands or losing their function. In these pieces I try to desperately 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. This, as a way of coping with this fear and trying to use it to my advantage. This way I try to work with this fear, which I will carry with me for the rest of my life. The pieces also represent the decay I won’t be able to stop. One day my body and hands will completely disappear. At that point these pieces become a way to remember me, and my hands…

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Until Death Do Us Part Juan Riusech / Spain

Brooch “The necrosis #1”, 2022

Brooch “The necrosis #2”, 2022

Recycled plastic, PLA, glue, rubber, steel

Recycled plastic, PLA, glue, rope, steel

Thermoformed, hand 3D print

Thermoformed, hand 3D print PRICE ON REQUEST

When two human beings promise each other “till death do us part“ and are able to actually make it happen, in full realization – taking on themselves the full responsibility, accepting all liability of their actively lived promise, without legitimization such as fear of being alone and dependencies between the two – then it is a pure miracle. It is a miracle, when – following your own essence and being-laws – you appear fully in my cosmos, and we remain two expanding worlds, growing individuals that together create a new world: our world. From my idea of love, death is therefore never the real end – because this third world, that contains both others, is now subject to the forces and conditions of evolution.

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Until Death Do Us Part Julian de la Garza / USA

Ring “Draugr”

Brooch “Idle Worship”

Sterling silver, emerald, black onyx, 23k gold leaf, sea snake skin, carved precious black coral, pearl

Charred wood, sterling silver, carved precious black coral, 23k gold leaf, garnet, steel

3D Printed, carved, cast

Carved, fabricated, 3D printed, cast NOT FOR SALE

While grieving from the loss of a loved one, I began thinking about how we handle loss differently. The pieces I have submitted for the UNTIL DEATH DO US PART each help the wearer deal with grief in some way. Monkey's Paw is based on the short story about a grieving father who wishes on a cursed artifact to bring his son back from the dead. He returns, but as an abomination. Some people would bargain anything to bring back a loved one they once had. My piece Draugr is inspired by viking mythology; a Draugr is a spirit of someone with unfinished business who haunts their crypt restlessly for eternity. My ring is intended to be used as a meditative tool for dealing with grief in a healthy way. The gemstones studding the surface can be used for counting or rubbing similar to Mala beads or rosary beads in order to ease into a meditative state. Ideally in the liminal space that the meditation provides, the wearer can deal with their feelings of loss.

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Until Death Do Us Part Juanjo Garcia / Spain

Object “Pata de Pollo”, 2021 Wood, resin, copper, gold leaf, brass and small led circuit.

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Until Death Do Us Part Junnan Songxu / China

Pendant “Keepsake: case 3. Electrocardiogram”, 2019 Baroque Pearl, Brass, Resin, Rubber, Paper Laser cutting & etching, Casting, Hand fabrication, Metal plating

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This pendant piece was made as a keepsake for my friend, representing a narrative of how death separated her from grandma. This eternally beating electrocardiogram symbolizes her endless yearning. Death is something we can not escape, it is a thing we must face sooner or later. Myself has experienced several separation from my family by death. Losing someone you love is hurtful, but once you get over the most difficult time you realize they are not gone completely as you thought, the time you went through together is true and forever. Though you will never meet that person again, you can always feel there is part of them left in you. Therefore, I believe death is not an end but a new start, life is a loop and memories can lead us the way, that's why in my work I want to deliver a positive message that we will always be together, even death do us part.

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Until Death Do Us Part Kamilé Staneliené / Lithuania

Brooch “In Memoriam”, 2021 Copper, glass, photography, sandstone, pearls, silk thread, stainless steel Stained glass

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The brooch “In Memoriam” consists of two parts. The first part is a photo framed by stained glass technique. Here, my grandmother is eternalized in her youth with her children, including my mother. The second part is a stone found in the mountains. This stone symbolizes eternity. Attached to the photograph and the stone by knots is a pearl necklace that symbolizes my ongoing relationship, connection and attachment to my grandmother. This brooch is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother who left this world on August 19, 2021.

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Until Death Do Us Part Klara Brydewall Sandquist / Sweden

Brooch “Dead man 1”, 2019

Brooch “Dead man 2”, 2019

Brooch “Dead man 3”, 2019

silver, fine silver, steel

Casted silver skeleton with electroformed skin

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I work with female anger and I apply with a group of three silver brooches that represent specific persons that I´ve met. Each of the brooches is about 13cm long. First I cast a silver skeleton, about 13cm long. After that I make the body. I sculpt it in wax, using the skeleton as it´s core. Then I paint the body with metal paint, so that I can electroform the skin in silver. I then drain the man of wax,- when dipped in a bath of boiling hot water, the wax can escape through the mouth. The man is now a hollow piece with a skeleton inside. After that craft related violence (such as a hammer, a flame and/or my hands) is used to break the body. The crafting of these brooches seems to describe me as an evil person, rather than my reactions towards evil. And I think that is what makes the wearability important. As a female, my anger is always too loud or too quiet, and far too often it seems like speaking makes more of an impact on the interpretation of me than the problem itself.

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Until Death Do Us Part Leslie D. Boyd / USA

Necklace “Looking Glass”, 2020 Silver, obsidian, rayon. Necklace. Fabricated silver, carved stone.

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While coping with coping I run my fingers over the embossed silver of my grandmother’s hand mirror. Over time I flip it over and gaze into my eyes, trying to come to terms with their complacency in systems and worlds and dreams that are broken. I don’t let myself do this enough. I tell my students not to speak in generalizations (I told them this morning, in fact), but dare I say that we don’t do this enough? Exist with ourselves quietly? But here it is late one night on the 9th month of this year that never seems to end. I cannot help but be histrionic, by nature an over sharer. The rabbit can’t go back in the hat. Or whatever those other sayings might be. . . So I make a necklace of polished obsidian. To gaze in. To face myself. A scrying glass is meant to tell fortunes, but in mine I make promises. To try and get some sleep, to be gracious, to peel away the veneer and see the raw wood beneath. To oil it and care for it and persist in being.

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Until Death Do Us Part Lily Kanellopoulou / Greece

Brooch “Crossing Paths”, 2021

Ring “Butterfly”, 2020

Resin, bronze, silver, arzando, pigments, stainless steel

Resin, copper, silver, pigments, oxidation Molds for resin and metalsmithing techniques

Molds for resin and metalsmithing techniques

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With my interest focused on natural materials, multilevel aesthetic forms were carefully selected, before decay tears them apart and leads them to a slow death. They were transformed with resin and sliced to reveal their inner layering and beauty of their construction.

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Until Death Do Us Part Louise Ginioux / France

Necklace, “Burning Inside”, 2021 Up-cycled leather, acrylic, brass, threads

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I like to explore with matter, to make it react to identify its properties and develop new possibilities. More and more in my work I seek to use jewelry as a way to connect with each other and create social bond.

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Until Death Do Us Part Marcia Lima / Brazil

Brooch “Umbilical#60”, 2021

Brooch “Empty nest”, 2021

Paper porcelain, hemp thread, copper, stainless steel

Paper porcelain, hemp thread, copper thread, stainless steel

High temperature firing porcelain sewed at crochet made with hemp thread and copper thread

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Necklace “Fertility - To bone To die”, 2021 paper-porcelain, hemp thread, copper thread High temperature firing porcelain, interlacing and crochet made with hemp thread and copper thread.

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Marcia Lima / Brazil The interweaving of the yarns and crochet gestures connect the essence of feelings and sensations. Repetitive movements sometimes lead her to a meditative state, sometimes to a state of reverie. Egg, symbol of fertility, birth, repository of new life and representative of the primitive embryonic form, emphasizes the ambivalence between fragility and resistance in the relationship between mother and child. Umbilical cord, in addition to being a nutritional messenger, is also responsible for the energetic connection and the transfer of the emotional charge between mother and baby. Parallel to the cord, there is a thread formed by an energy mesh called maternal bond, generated in pregnancy, and formed by the energy that emanates from the mother, directed to the child through the umbilical cord, that establishes a lifelong bond. When the cord is cut, a physical rupture occurs, but its energetic form lasts, until death do them apart...or does it last forever, despite the end of life?

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Until Death Do Us Part Maria Kiialainen / Finland

Brooch “ The healing parasite ( Inonotus obliquus)” 2020 Copper, enamel, magnet, bone glue, nishiki thread, chaga powder Copper forged and folded, enameling and mixed media

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This black bulb is magnetic to its partner, he looks like a tumor that will kill. And so, it does, but before it has a passionate relationship whit its partner, protecting him from all possible dangers, like bacteria, viruses and other mushrooms. This mushroom is an endophyte, making complex symbiosis whit its partner, but as favorable conditions change it becomes a saprotrophic parasite that sucks all life from its beloved. Under medical mushrooms it’s called the big daddy, as it has enormous healing powers, in Russian folk medicine it’s believed to cure cancer and for sure it will boost your immune system.

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Until Death Do Us Part Michelle Kraemer / Austria - Luxembourg

Necklace “Infinite”, 2021 Balsa wood, color shifting pigments, varnish, silver Two linked pieces carved from a single block of balsa wood, coated in pigments, varnished and threaded on a silver chain.

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When the world around us is burning we’re holding on and not even a landslide can bring us down. Cut from one block, we are intertwined souls connected through calm and chaos, tornadoes and soft breezes. A bond that grows stronger over time. Until death do us part.

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Until Death Do Us Part Monique Lecouna / Argentina

Stole, 2020 Antique fabrics: lace, velvet curtain, cotton batiste. Crystal pearls. Latex. A piece of Limoges plate from 1906. Old lead hem weights. Acrylic paint. Threads

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Amulet to protect A Room of One’s Own This stole is an amulet, because an amulet can be any object to which a person grants the virtue of protection, it’s power works by superstition, since it is believed in beyond reason. In this amulet these wrappings protect and preserve my “own room” of which Virginia Woolf spoke in her book. That room represents my ability to create, is the only true thing that I have and lives inside of me. It's my refuge, my safe place in the world. I created this piece to protect it. I carry my amulet close with me, it is assumed that the closer to the body it is carried, the more powerful its effect. The silhouette of my amulet refers to the priestly stoles, making a criticism of religious mandates. It’s shape is like a mantle that covers me and weighs on my shoulders, reminding me how hard it was to recover my own space and everything I suffered. To me, this stole is protection and shelter. In it, I condense my concerns and keep the most precious treasures

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Until Death Do Us Part Namkyung Lee / South Korea

Brooch “Your Room 2”, 2021

Necklace “Your Room”, 2021

Sterling silver, photograph; printed on acrylic

Photo printing on acrylic boards, metal and acrylic hinges, decorations using 3D programs

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For us, death is an inevitable part of life. So people try to attach a lot of meaning to death and life. It can be said that death and life coexist in opposite positions and play their own roles in human life. Knowing the sorrow and regret of death makes life so important. Some people say that one of the scariest things about the death of someone close to you is that the memory of that person gradually fades away. However, that does not mean that life itself with them did not exist. Because the memories we keep as well as the forgotten memories are a part of life and a whole. The reason why my work is made for the act of containing, storing, and looking at images related to memory is because the concept of memory occupies an important part in human life. Until death divides our lives, our memories build up, or are forgotten. In this inevitable process, we try our best to catch even a little bit of precious things.

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Until Death Do Us Part Nan Jin / Japan - China

Brooch “Path”, 2020 Sterling silver Metal engraving, burn the silver powder

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There is a mushroom that has been chewed by bugs. A path of gnawed marks is formed on the mushroom, and all the mushroom cells along the path dead， thus forming a [path of death]. This is an unavoidable law of nature, but it is also a unique mark given by nature, and the uniqueness and unexpectedness draw me in. [Path of Death] divides the mushroom into two halves, but at the same time gives each a unique shape. In a word，Death may bring separation, but it is not necessarily means end, and the future is always unknown.

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Until Death Do Us Part Nico Delaide / Belgium

Brooch“Until death do us part”,2021 Silver 0,925-Leather-Wood-Baltic amber-Dead babybat Soldering-Laminating-Bending-Engraving-Carvi ng-Glueing

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My brooch, "The Crypt of the Sacred Matrimony" shows a couple, two different people, the nuptial bed, the basilica of their wedding, the coffin, the candles, not easy to wear every day, such is married life....

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Until Death Do Us Part Noa Tamir / Israel

Brooch “Broken flower #1”, 2020

Brooch “Broken flower #2”, 2020

Brooch “Broken flower #3”, 2020

925 sterling silver, dried flowers, silicon balls.

Mixed media

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Broken Flowers. Can anything be everlasting? Materials that were supposed to be forgotten, to disappear, or to dissolve make up the jewelry pieces I've created. I seek the point at which a moment is almost gone, and I attempt to preserve it, freeze it. I set flowers I've collected and dried by myself as if they were precious gems, using the brooches as crutches that support these broken flowers and enables them to remain erect and present in their state of decay and imperfection in an attempt to help them linger on a bit longer and defeat their disappearance from the world.

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Until Death Do Us Part Omri Goren / Israel

Triptych Brooch “Grandma”, 2020

Brooch “Half”, 2021

Three frames connected by hinges, three elements from one painting.

Printed oil paintings, Patinated Brass

Printed oil Paintings, 24K Gold Plated Brass

Metalsmith traditional methods

Metalsmith traditional methods PRICE ON REQUEST

For many years I have been engaged in research between connections opposing materials, conceptual and physical, parts of a whole individually or together. In this exhibition I chose to offer three works. The brooches deal with separation, marital and family. The necklace shows pieces of memory made up of pieces of clothing passed down in my family, three generations back, from Egypt, France, Russia, and Ukraine.

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Until Death Do Us Part Patricia Iglesias / Chile

Breastplate "Shukaku", 2020 Jute cord, cotton, linen and jute threads, acrylic wool, scraps of textile material, rubbish bags, leather, non-woven fabric, copper thread. Crochet weaving, Káweskar and Yagán basket weaving, sewing buttonhole stitch and embroidery.

Necklace "Aiken”, 2020 Hemp and jute cord, flat cotton cord, cotton, jute and linen threads, burlap fabric scraps, copper and steel needle. Crochet weaving, Kawéskar and Yagán basket weaving, eyelet stitch, hand dyeing, hammering, fire patina and metal bending.

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Brooch, "Chorlito" (Plover), 2020 Hemp and jute cord, flat cotton cord, cotton, jute and linen threads, burlap fabric scraps, copper and steel needle. Crochet weaving, Kawéskar and Yagán basket weaving, eyelet stitch, hand dyeing, hammering, fire patina and metal bending.

Patricia Iglesias / Chile Trying to imagine what fear looks like, I muddle, I squeeze, sometimes I suck the material, squeezing and forcing it. I want to unveil my fears, to know their truths and not hide them from myself, they say that in order to let go you have to know what you are holding on to. In the making of this piece I ask myself what are the limits of fear. Fear of the death of loved ones, fear that the death of my loved ones will separate us. I knit, link and stitch; protecting, repairing and rebuilding. While I weave I connect with my surroundings and the place I inhabit, I use materials that refer to remote times and ancestral cultures, those that travelled and inhabited the territory of South America with their own patterns. I do it slowly, as if I were not in this time, as if I were in a different time; point by point, stitch after stitch, I build spaces, bridges, connections and voids, like instants and pieces of history that we have yet to intertwine, as a metaphor for the evanescent.

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Until Death Do Us Part Raquel Bessudo / Mexico

Brooch “Under the surface III”, 2021 Textile, watercolor, ink, gesso cooper, 23k gold leaf, Silk thread pearl, stainless steel Mixed media on fabric and cooper, constructed

Brooch “Under the surface I”, 2021 Textile, watercolor, gesso cooper, pearl, Silk thread, stainless steel Gesso and watercolor on fabric and cooper, constructed

Brooch “Under the surface II”, 2021 Textile, watercolor, gesso cooper, pearl, Silk thread, stainless steel Gesso and watercolor on fabric and cooper, constructed

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To notice under the surface, a light that shines where there was already one shining, the contrast of a color that draws you gaze to a new place; all the little details that nature has to offer, that when you notice you can't help but feel more. To notice the difference, the details that change the world: Is to be woken up by the subtlety of what's behind the obvious

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Until Death Do Us Part Rho Tang / USA

Brooch “Fleeting Memories”, 2021 Mother of Pearl, Titanium, Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel (pin) Anodizing, riveting, hand sawing, hand fabrication

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The “Fleeting Memories” series was developed in 2020 when the world was on pause, suddenly the society fell quiet, and silence was part of our everyday life. During the long months of separation from “normal life”, I felt trapped in a barrage of past memories. I relived those scattered memories from the past with no clear order. I was overwhelmed but at the same time indulged in those vivid memories coming in a form of wave that overcame my mind and body. The abundance of time allowed me to access and reflect on my past to have a different perspective in life. I chose mother of pearl as the main material, the fragile fragments are individually hand-sawed and riveted onto an anodized niobium or titanium backing to form an integrated vision. The iridescent remnants represent fractions of my memories from the past, together they weave and intertwine to tell my story.

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Until Death Do Us Part Rikke Lunnemann / Denmark

Artwork “Mom Expired”, 2021

Sterling silver

Toolmaking, press, goldsmith techniques

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There is so much joy and love in being a parent, but it can also cost a lot of money. You can help your children economically when you are alive, but when ‘Death Do Us Part’ the parental help through ‘Mom Bank’ ends, the credit card expires, and the inheritance is split. But this does not mean that the love from a mom has expired. The card symbolizes much more than money. It symbolizes infinite love - after death. The 4 crosses represent death. 0143 is the code from the time of pagers - it means ‘I love you’. 1365 stands for every single day of the year. The last four numbers are 9s. 9 is the number for truth and completion?? as well as love, eternity, and faith. The expired card is a symbol of appreciation of life because we all know that death is inevitable. When we were born, we took a loan in death, and now this loan has expired. It is a memorial after death. It confirms that there is no more financial help, but the love of a mother is eternal.

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Until Death Do Us Part Sara Mas / Spain

Necklace “Latente”, 2019 Iron and enamel Forging and enameling

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In the times we live in, where we realize that anything can happen at any time…. We wonder if we want to share life until death do us part ... Have you ever thought about it? Do you want to stay with someone until death do us part? Or do you just let yourself be carried away by your instincts without posing an end in life?

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Until Death Do Us Part Sara Shahak / Israel

12 Rings “12 memories rings”, 2021

Brooch “Collecting memories”, 2021

Necklace, “Memories Beads”, 2021

Brass, Copper, old jewelry pieces, Enamel beads, Glass beads

Brass, Copper, old jewelry pieces, Enamel beads, Glass beads; 29X17X1.5cm

Combining metal parts, melting, soldering, polishing

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Combining metal parts, melting, soldering, polishing

Sara Shahak / Israel What happens to my memories, experiences that are hidden in my mind and heart? I want to preserve them, to freeze their physical existence together, like those creatures that have been frozen and drowned in a kind of a time capsule of fossils. Objects that have been a part of my life are true physical expressions to my memories. I melt together, by a torch fire, different metal parts. Some of them are raw materials I usually use in my works, as well as parts of my old and nostalgic jewelry collections, items that symbolize memories, longings and life experiences. While all the pieces are bubbling into one piece, I let the flame shape and assemble them, creating a new ‘fossil’, containing old memories, colors and shapes. The creation process will end when I throw the 'fossilized stone' into water. Then the "memories" are captured together. The "fossils" are changing into new jewelry items that contain hints of memories and and "fragrances" of my life. Until death … and beyond...

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Until Death Do Us Part Saskia Bostelmann / Mexico

Brooch “Imperfect Architectures I”, 2021

Brooch “Imperfect Architectures II”, 2021

Brooch “Imperfect Architectures III”Heart, 2021

Brooch “Imperfect Architectures IV”, 2021

Paper pulp by recycling used paper, epoxy cement, 24k gold leaves, sterling silver; Idental inox steel for the pin.protective shellac varnish Fabrication of the paper pulp in diverse molds. Silver Construction and soldering. PRICE ON REQUEST

Saskia Bostelmann / Mexico These brooches deal with the topic Till death do us part, taking it literally . The materials used are thought of one “dying” before the other and leaving the rest behind. The main materials are on one hand paper pulp & gold leaf and on the other hand concrete & silver. also the idea of debris….imperfect structures, almost falling down... Every person that leaves us leaves an imprint in us . Depending on the power o f the relationship and the depth of it, the marks in our souls are deeper, or lighter. Nevertheless, there are always marks , evidence of this death that has left us behind. Traces of the relationship are left leaving the changed person behind.

My pieces relate to this specific theme in the material aspect. The paper pulp can eventually break or dissolve and then a new piece will emerge. The traces of the paper pul adhere to the concrete, yet a hard concrete & silver piece will merge. One truly does not know how this left piece is until ...death does them

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Until Death Do Us Part Sébastien Carré / France

Necklace “Remembering what we had”, 2021

Ring “Look what you do to me”, 2021

Earrings, “Earth, Water, Blood..”, 2021

Japanese paper, unakite, garnet, jasper, beads, nylon

Japanese paper, unakite, beads, nylon, jasper thread

Unakite, lapis-lazuli, beads, silver 925, nylon

Macrame, weaving and embroidery techniques

Weaving and embroidery techniques

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Until death do us part. This sentence hold quite a sentimental connotation, this part brought the idea of making the type of jewelry given in a couple, medallion, ring and earrings. This sentence also gives the idea of a forever bound to someone or something. In order to relate to that part I reflect on what was our most intangible bound and to me it is our link with nature. When we die, we go back to nature and without it we can’t survive. There is clearly there an interdependence and it is time for the human kind to realize it or else will there be anything left if we keep on destroying what aloud us to be alive. It is time to take big steps to give a future to the next generations and the planet itself.

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Until Death Do Us Part Silke Fleischer / Belgium

Double ear pin “In Between Me And Her”

Clasp “Octopus”

Oxidised silver 925

Framed self image, wood

Framed image, wood PRICE ON REQUEST

Silke Fleischer / Belgium In between me and her, which simultaneously reads as a conceptual title – it describes the desire of a transformation in time, as like a snapshot. By following the event of a freezing moment the work exists as a sculpture, body, space, and experience as a process of being rather than of wearing. The work can be read as a desire of holding on to the presence. Immobilized by an attached string and by such conditions prevented from moving freely. Motion implies a change in the position over time. If the position of a body does not change with respect to a given frame of reference, the body is said to be at rest, or to have a constant position. Octopuses have more than half of their neurons situated not in the brain, but in their tentacles. It is believed they possess synaesthetic abilities, merging thinking with touch and movement and therefore associated with the human subconscious. In situations of necessity and survival, it can devour its prey.

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Until Death Do Us Part Taibe Palacios / Chile

Brooch “Vida”, 2021 Seaweed, lacquer, resin, pigments, oils, steel and silver Handcrafted.

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Until Death Do Us Apart Death is the end, and a new start. Leaving behind and looking ahead. The end is the beginning is the end. Life and nature is about cycles, the beginning and the end of a story are part of being alive. “Vida” is a handcrafted brooch made of several pieces of seaweed meticulously shaped to enhance the feeling of movement and fluidity.

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Until Death Do Us Part Teresa Faris / USA

Necklace “CWaB:Lien #24”, 2021 Sterling silver, wood altered by a bird, leaves, silk

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Memories die with us. They said the streets would be paved in gold and promised of a better life. In exchange one must conceal, assimilate and never speak of who they are and where they are from. What they didn’t plan for was that important things are passed on without words and can never be fully concealed. The objects I make honor my family stories, sacrifices and strengths and offer a place for remembrance and a permanence.

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Until Death Do Us Part Ute van der Plaats / Belgium

Brooch “The thin line between love and hate”, 2021 Porcelain, glazes, acrylic glass, digital manipulated picture of an orchid, overhead foil, 14ct gold, sterling silver, remanium wire Molding, slip casting, glazing, hand sawing, hammering, Photoshop, riveting, hand fabrication

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The thin line between love and hate. Falling in love is one of the most intensive emotions of human life. New love feels like an endless white field, a carte blanche, innocent and yet without any dark spots or breaches. But love has to be nurtured and if you don’t take enough care of it you might not see the first dark shadows growing silently from the inside. And if you allow the shadows to accumulate they will eventually cross a line, spread out like a disease and might turn what once was love into hate.

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Until Death Do Us Part Viktoria Muenzker / Austria

Necklace “Nuptial Fusion”, 2021

Brooch “Lovers Souls”, 2021

Earrings “Tunicata love”, 2021

Mangrove wood, brass, anodized titanium, silizium beads, carnelian, silver 925, micro-granules, lacquer

Driftwood, anodized titanium, petroleum quartz, glass splinters, silver 925, lacquer, micro-granules

Driftwood, anodized titanium, silver 925, micro-granules, lacquer

Anodizing, soldering, mounting, painting

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Anodizing, mounting, painting

Viktoria Muenzker / Austria

“With beat of systole and of diastole One grand great life throbs through earth’s giant heart, And mighty waves of single Being roll From nerve-less germ to man, for we are part Of every rock and bird and beast and hill, One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill. . . .” Oscar Wilde - We Are Made One with What We Touch and See

A love affaire in a nuptial fusion. Wedding rings made of titanium, holding on forever. Merged together in an endless circle, symbolical necklace. Red carnelian with its sacred power of energy, warmth and joy. The happiness of being together in real life. To be connected with two simple bands. Lovers souls, two clear crystals with petroleum inclusions symbolizing two souls meant to stay together even after death.

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Until Death Do Us Part Xinia Guan / China

Brooch “Closer”，2021 Oxidized Fine Silver, Sterling Silver, Peridot Hand sawing and hand fabrication

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Intimacy connections are strong and fragile at the same time. This world produces enormous amounts of tiny dusty emotions and secrets every day. Only related to the individual in it, then it was buried by the torrent of time. These subtle emotions flowed out of the hands like fine sand, and couldn't stop. We struggled and wandered in it. Longing for something to grab, and hoping that we have never had it. But no matter what, they are still so touching, occasionally taking a glimpse of time. The beautiful, bright and irreplaceable. At this moment I started to realize, The connection point between you and me that gleams slightly. No one can be separated. "Until Death Do Us Part"

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Until Death Do Us Part Yao Tan / France - China

Broche “Parasitic l”, 2021

Neckpiece “Memorial”, 2020

Neckpiece “Stubble”, 2021

Copper, steel

Porcelaine, copper, bronze, nacre, seed

Copper

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"……for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, honor, and cherish, until death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and there to I plight thee my troth." This sentence reminds me of love, the vows of men and women at weddings. I have been in a long-distance relationship for a long time. It is a kind of love during this period of COVID. The epidemic caused us not to meet in two years, which let us experience the helplessness of being separated. I think about the origin of that strong vow between lovers? From the memory of the body? Comes from the determination to be together? Does it come from a moment of desire？ After the oath is broken, what is left? Remaining memories of a certain moment, such as the touch of a man's beard, a woman's orgasm, or some nightmares?

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Until Death Do Us Part Yiota Vogli / Greece

Necklace/Object “Pandora’s Box’, 2021 Alpaca, acrylic colors, photo transfer, cotton Traditional goldsmith’s techniques, painting , medium image transfer on alpaca PRICE ON REQUEST

Two side worn brooch “To Have and to Hold”, 2021 Copper, brass, alpaca, gesso, acrylics, painting, medium image transfer, threads

Pendant/Object “Psyche”, 2021 Copper, gesso, acrylics, color pencils,painting, medium image transfer, cord

Yiota Vogli / Greece I used the myth of Pandora’s Box as a metaphor for human relationships and their complicated intricacies. According to the legend, curiosity led Pandora to open the box, thus releasing physical and emotional curses into the world. Only hope remained within the box. As Pandora opened the box with her very own hands, our own choices are metaphorically the hands opening the boxes of our lives. While some of these decisions may have caused us pain, we need not fear to open the box once again, hoping that the contents of the box won’t hurt us at this time. Relationships may end but if you look closely into the bottom of the box you will find hope lying inside.

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Until Death Do Us Part Youjin Um / South Korea

Brooch “Combination II-1”, 2021 Necklace “Combination III”, 2020

Sterling silver,

Sterling silver Sawing

Sawing PRICE ON REQUEST

Youjin Um / South Korea object It can be recognized that the creator's object is not a mere object of conventional meaning, but a meaningful object that originated from the appearance of one's own life and personal experience. It tells the story of a condensed history of time and space, which makes it feel like another self, or self, in various forms.

memory The illusion of memory appear in consistent or inconsistent forms. Repeat rearranging and reassembling the memory pieces one by one, scattered through the exposed and abandoned traces. The process of rediscovering the meaning and value of life in the objectified object that projected something is only possible through the method and reason of constant self-censorship.

me I feel nostalgic, comforted, stable and healed through the precious memories of my childhood. So I began to keep the memory in a single space. Silver, the main material in my work, reminded me of a scene of our time as a pure child.