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Jewelry for Fertility Ritual, 2015
Largest 42 x 32 x 2 cm. Peanuts, paper, glue.
This project deals with the desire to be a mother. It explores particular, intimate moments on the timeline towards becoming pregnant. These moments, such as ovulation and hopefully implantation, are all too temporary and fleeting, but they can lead to what is irreversibly permanent; having a child. This subject is, to a certain extent, taboo. It is so personal, bodily, often bittersweet or even painful and enveloped in seemingly bottomless yearning, the fear of the unknown, the uncontrollable, that symbolism becomes a key tool to make an attempt at representation. I have chosen to explore the pods of plants that we eat as symbols– peanuts and beans – that seem, themselves, to incubate, foster and create an embryonic state.
Largest 42 x 32 x 2 cm. Peanuts, paper, glue.
This project deals with the desire to be a mother. It explores particular, intimate moments on the timeline towards becoming pregnant. These moments, such as ovulation and hopefully implantation, are all too temporary and fleeting, but they can lead to what is irreversibly permanent; having a child. This subject is, to a certain extent, taboo. It is so personal, bodily, often bittersweet or even painful and enveloped in seemingly bottomless yearning, the fear of the unknown, the uncontrollable, that symbolism becomes a key tool to make an attempt at representation. I have chosen to explore the pods of plants that we eat as symbols– peanuts and beans – that seem, themselves, to incubate, foster and create an embryonic state.