“La liberté – un nuage d’or auquel seul un rêve qui brûle toute l’âme, dévaste toute la vie, donne accès.”
(Marina Tsvétaïeva)
Molten life pouring from my skin like a golden river…
“You start your journey through the golden road of life, a sinuous path, a labyrinth of unexpected experiences and unforeseen steps. Your blood rushes through your veins in a meander of feelings and sensations, in these moments of intense struggle, transformative events. Yet there is this faint thread of feathers in the distance, a soft sign that you are not alone. Your silver skin with its ondulation of vulnerability is a blurred and porous line between reality and dream. The feathers, like Ariane’s thread, are a fragile reminder caressing your skin from time to time. The tactile quality of this ethereal dream-like substance vibrates through your entire being, to serve as an incantation for love.”
_ How de we convey the emotional landscape and poetic depth of someone’s journey?
‘The Journey’ is an intimate statement necklace and an incantation for love. It’s a kaleidoscope of the sensations unearthed from ‘Bodies in Movement’, a journey physical or spiritual, travelling on the road or in time, and in the context of forced migration and exile.
The dramatic line created using a gold wire is the ‘Golden Path of Life’ which also represents the blood rushing through the veins of our body, in moments of intense feelings, struggles, transformative events.
Acting as a veil, the ‘Silver Skin’ with its undulations of vulnerability creates a blurred line between the dreams we have the reality we live in. Caressing our skin from time to time are little silver feathers, like little messages, cold and unbearable or fragile and soft reminders of forgotten wishes, people we lost, unsaid words, secrets we keep.
The use of real found white feathers from doves resonates with the fragility of our own feelings, and their tactile quality act as an incantation for love. It is a symbolic offering of courage, strength, hope and tenderness, to people on their journey: a ‘nest of love’ given to Bodies in Movement.
‘ The Journey’
9ct gold, sterling silver, dove feathers
‘The Phoenix-Dove’
Sterling silver, 9ct gold, opal, dove feathers, garnet, moonstone and opal beads
‘ Verifying a dream ‘
“He once rode into me as if
Through lands of
Miracles and fire…
He used poetry
To invade my depths…
We entered one another’s eyes
As if they were oases…
Without a name he sank into me”
(Marina Tsvetaeva)
Necklace
9ct gold, boulder opal, garnet
Necklace
Sterling silver, labradorite
‘ Momentum towards Infinity* ’
Brooch
Yellow and white 9ct gold, pearls and diamonds
Inspired by Dominique Gauthier’s abstract expressionism paintings (in particular Contre-Raisons).
Paintings without borders:
“Forme ouverte et ajouree, organisee cependant par de grands arcs, tout a la fois expansive et lovee, dansante.”
* “… l’elan vers l’infini que l’on percoit dans ce fouillis de lignes” (W. Woringer).
Cloelea Jewellery 