The treasured traces brooch is a very special project for me. After my grandmother passed, she left a lot of bead necklaces, all different colours and sizes. They are simple necklaces, most of them made from plastic beads, not really worth anything. But because they were from my grandmother they didn’t feel simple to me at all. I wanted to show what they meant to me.
I made prints of the various necklaces in clay, then had a mould made and got it casted in bronze. In the brooch the beads themselves are not there, just like the person they belonged to isn’t here anymore. The traces they’ve left in bronze show you the beauty of something what was once there and is now a treasured memory.
