Eating Diamonds
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Mary Hallam Pearse
The necklace Sugar and Spice (2023) by Mary Hallam Pearse is structured as an accumulation of interlocking forms that refuse a single point of orientation. The piece extends laterally across the collar bone, distributing weight and attention evenly directing it toward a central element, the bow. Its composition is continuous, with each segment feeding into…
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Nassrin Vessalian
The necklace, Sundown (2018), by Nassrin Vessalian, presents itself as a dense, compact form, its scale intimate yet materially expansive. The object is roughly cubic, its softened edges resisting strict geometry while maintaining a sense of containment. Suspended from a thin cord, the piece appears both weighted and precarious, as if the mass it carries…
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Ruudt Peters
The brooch SUCTUS “Aspirazione” (2018) by Ruudt Peters stages a precise negotiation between containment and emergence. Formally, the object is structured as a shallow, asymmetrical silver vessel. Its geometry neither fully organic nor strictly industrial. The outer shell presents a matte, controlled surface, its muted tonality absorbing light rather than reflecting it. This restraint establishes…
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Terhi Tolvanen
There is a particular kind of beauty that doesn’t ask for approval. It doesn’t shimmer prettily under gallery lighting or offer itself up as ornament in any conventional sense. Instead, it insists on its own terms, through its own logic that you come closer, look harder, and reconsider what you thought you understood about nature,…
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Mia Kwon
Mia Kwon’s Balance brooch is constructed from Mont-Blanc porcelain, slip cast into repeated pleated segments that are later assembled into a complete circular form. Each fluted module is individually shaped, pigmented, fired, and polished to a slick, almost lacquered surface. The units are then sewn together with thread and reinforced with silver and steel findings.…
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Gijs Bakker
At first glance, Gijs Bakker’s Frank de Boer brooch reads like a cut-out image caught mid-motion. A frozen athlete suspended in a high kick. The figure is printed in a warm, sepia-toned palette, as if lifted from an old newspaper photograph and preserved just long enough to become collectible. The pose is dramatic, but the…
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Raquel Bessudo
Autumn Bouquet III presents itself as a small cluster of flowers, compressed into a tight silhouette and held just slightly off the surface like a cutout memory. It reads as soft and familiar at first glance, but the longer you look, the more the brooch reveals itself as something constructed through layering, edged composition, and…
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Elisa Vieira Novás
#Threads 1 is light, open, and deliberately unresolved visually. The collar takes shape as a loose ring of interconnected forms rather than a fixed perimeter. It reads less as a contained object and more as a system that is porous, expandable, and responsive to space. Air and movement are not incidental here; they are integral…
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Emily Culver
The object is neither clearly internal nor external, neither fully sculptural nor overtly wearable. Stereoscopic Flesh, Illusionary Organ presents itself as an ambiguous bodily fragment. Its scale suggests intimacy, yet its surface resists familiarity. Culver positions the viewer immediately in a state of uncertainty, asking them to look closely while withholding legibility. The form is bulbous…
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Jamie Kroeger
Drummond Creek presents itself as a dense, compact object that is heavy in both material and implication. The ring does not aim for refinement or visual resolution. Instead, it reads as something assembled under pressure, closer to a fragment or remnant than a polished adornment. The structure is angular and asymmetrical. Rusted steel defines the…
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