04/24/2024
Each time that I take pics of the pieces of this collection for a cliebtm I see something different , each time they are photographed for a client to choose from, I realize that they are finding new homes and that they are letting me go, to move forward into someone elseās life.
The gold ikigai plates as the backdrop and the rusted out squares of stainless steel bring them together with the reality of what we each think is beauty, what is precious, is it the castings of 18k gold in each piece or is it the interwoven found parts that makes it precious, I gave up a long time ago on trying quantify this.
When I stopped thinking too much it made me understand and believe that itās all precious, itās up to us, to each person to decide whatās precious to them.
A mother will hang a drawing of a cat on the refrigerator that her child drew in school and she really does think itās precious , this in turn lets the child believe, to dream, to feel appreciated and loved , her actions of placing that cat drawing on the fridge just told the child how precious it is to her. How precious her child is to her.
My goal is that when these or other pieces that I create are put on to wear that that little child in all of us wakes up to see how precious they are, the pieces how precious they are and how precious we all are.
Cheers
Anthony