When I was 13 years old I decided to become a jewellery artist.
It was an easy decision since the future seemed fare away growing up on a farm on a small Danish island.
Looking back on my decision I made it mainly against the, for me, unbearable conservatism of the environment in which I grew up. In other words: being an artist would make me untouchable towards the normative thinking of my surroundings. And as I later realized it was a successful escape: I am with all my heart a jeweller artist!
I am writing about my decision – not because it to some extend is the starting point of my career – but because it expresses something about my approach to being an artist. Although each of my different work-groups have their own autonomy expression, what they all have in common is my pleasure of questioning the given.
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How to be arty, necklace, 2019
Materials: discarded paint tubes, thread
Photo: Paul Adie
Paul Adie_3
Burnout, pendant, 2018
Materials: German homework, cord, brass
Photo: Paul Adie
Bricolage
2020, object for playing, plastic waste, birch tar, animal sinew
Photo: Patrik Graf
Bricolage
2020, object for playing, plastic waste, birch tar, animal sinew
Photo: Patrik Graf
Bricolage
2020, object for playing, plastic waste, birch tar, animal sinew
Photo: Patrik Graf
Bricolage
2020, object for playing, plastic waste, birch tar, animal sinew
Photo: Patrik Graf
A pinch of.. , brooch, 2020
Materials: copper, salt, pepper, sugar, resin
Photo: Mariko Kakinaga
Titel: Experimentation with avocado seed skin
Year: 2020
Material: avocado seed skins, cashew lacquer, paper