TEARS (crying my eyes out) (2024)

TEARS was made for the exhibition “Body of Water, Contemporary Jewellery Art from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Japan”, curated by Helen Hemsley og Tomoyo Hiraiwao and shown in Tokyo, September 2024.

“GLOBUS pharyngeus” – a lump in my throat.
And then: TEARS….teardrops the size of human eyeballs (crying my eyes out).
In Persia PEARLS were believed to be the tears of Gods.
And the ancient Greeks thought of pearls as dewdrops transformed by the moon at night.
New moons and full moons, light and darkness, linear and cyclical time, death and rebirth, ebb and flow.
In astrology, the Moon symbolizes emotions and rules the WATER sign Cancer (my sun and rising sign).
It is an old tradition to make jewellery of human hair. Mourning jewellery made of dead people’s hair was quite common in the 19th century (Romanticism).
I am very much alive, but I am moving towards the end. Sometimes that makes me want to cry….