Only in the realm of art and magic can opposites such as the brute and gold coexist. Reconciled through the noble hands of artist and artisans that for generations have shaped the earth’s rawest and roughest layers into beautiful ornaments and decorations. A roughing that gives way to new life. One where the Brute and the Gold coexist as part of creation. There’s beauty in both.
Standing in the middle of a cedar forest, Espen’s rough-hewn totems stare back at the firing pits of the Inca where the Gold Ceramic Bangles are now being made. The same gold that Olivia rubs and shapes into iconic shapes of wax and graphite that now grace our walls.
On a more personal level it has always been my sister - Claire Miner - design collaborator and closest friend, who’s bruted down some of my rougher edges, by incorporating a feminine touch into my collections.
These are all references of a refinement that is to me an acknowledgment of the forces of nature, a reference to civilization, to the interconnectedness that brings us together. Gold, wax, totems, circles, relationships and story telling.
Where we come and where we’re going… the circle of life
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