Touch, compassion and happiness – JewelleryHere Vallejo introduces an elegant trilogy of gold, sterling silver and glass. This series of jewellery is inspired by the emotional repertoire of love, sensuality, and joy. The silver brooch TOUCH, created according to the lines and imprints of a human palm, refers to the wordplay: “We want to be moved by what we see and move with what we wear. Jewellery is the last touch when we decorate ourselves – this brooch is a print of identity”. The heart-shaped brooch COMPASSION – also created according to the lines of a hand – beautifully distills the feelings of love and compassion into its carefully crafted form. Vallejo completes her trilogy of jewellery with her ring HAPPINESS, shaped like a beautiful ruby-red bubble of glass set in silver. The feeling of happiness is an internal quality – a form of inner strength. Happiness can be held onto by cherishing it, by defending its virtues. Otherwise it breaks. The external benefits are insignificant to ‘goodness’, to true happiness. HAPPINESS embodies a direct translation of the concept. |
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Carolina Vallejo
b. 1966, Danish Jewellery Designer
Vallejo graduated from the Escola Massana in Barcelona, Spain in 1998 and from Guldsmedehøjskolen, Institut for Ædelmetal, in Copenhagen in 2001. She consciously works with materials that can imbue her ideas with layers of meaning, often gleaning inspiration from existential topics and philosophical questions that she seeks to debate through her choice of materials, design and use for the proposed piece. The themes of her objects and jewellery spring from thoughts with historical, social or symbolic starting points. Her work has been shown at a series of exhibitions both in Denmark and abroad including solo exhibitions at Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam, in Havana, Cuba as well as at Sagianno’s Gallery, Athens, Greece. In 2002 she received Danish Crafts’ Book Award for her publication Reliqvium. In 2003 Carolina Vallejo received a 3-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation in recognition of her work. | By same artist: |
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