2008

"Final affairs"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, freshwater pearls, pins, rose quartz, thread, a plastic toy, a zipper)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Victims"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, paint, pins, thread (polyamide), a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Memento mori"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, freshwater pearls, pins, a plastic toy, thread (polyamide))

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"The tradition"

jewellery sculpture/necklace (glass beads, pins, thread, plastic toys)

"The Guardian"

jewellery sculpture (amber, glass beads, malachite, freshwater pearls, pins, strengthened silk, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Butterfly caught..."

necklace (glass beads, paint, thread (polyamide), a plastic toy)

"Comatose"

pendant (cast glass, oxidized silver, thread)

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Too many Rabbits are bought to childern as toys. Too many Rabbits are tortured and killed in animal testing procedures. Too many Rabbits are forgotten in small cages in the backyards... Or inside houses. Too many Rabbits live in filthy accommodations. Too many Rabbits are sold from one "owner" to another, time and time again. Rabbits are fluffy and cute, but it doesn´t mean that they should not be taken seriously as animals, as individuals. They feel. They live.

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"Mature"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, cast glass, oxidized silver, thread (polyamide))

"Stoned runner..."

necklace (glass beads, hematite, pins, a plastic toy, wire)

"Fifty-fifty chance..."

jewellery sculpture (amber, glass beads, bronze, freshwater pearls, pins, shell, textile, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Dressed up..."

bracelet (amber, glass beads, bronze, hematite, freshwater pearls, pins, a plastic toy, turquoise)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"No more..."

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, freshwater pearls, pins, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Pieces of..."

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, pins, a plastic toy)

"Freedom"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, pins, silver, a plastic toy)

"Fighter"

necklace (glass beads, glue, freshwater pearls, pins, strengthened silk, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Prey"

pendant (hematite, pins, oxidized silver, a rubber toy)

"Nude"

jewellery sculpture (a plastic toy (the fake fur removed))

"Anonymity"

jewellery sculpture (amethysts, glass beads, hematite, freshwater pearls, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"Morbid"

jewellery sculpture (amber, glass beads, a part of a costume jewelry, freshwater pearls, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"The Anarchist"

pendant (glass beads, hematite, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

"Apathy"

necklace (glass beads, paper, pins, strengthened silk, thread, a plastic toy)

"The Knights"

pendant (aquamarine, glass beads, freshwater pearls, hematite, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"The Conquerors"

pendant (amber, glass beads, hematite, freshwater pearls, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy, turquoise)

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(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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"The Pussy Cat"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, pins, silver, a plastic toy)

"The Dancing Bear"

pendant (glass beads, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

"Pedestrians"

jewellery sculpture (glass beads, garnets, freshwater pearls, pins, oxidized silver, a plastic toy)

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I am a nature photographer. Often, when I bike on the nightly roads with my camera (summer nights are full of light up here in the north), I am confronting these sad incidents, where my loved ones have been brutally killed by car drivers and left behind lying on the streets.

With no other traffic, with no danger, it would had been so easy for those drivers to step out of their cars and move the carcauses away from the street to next by environment...

But no. They just don´t care. They don´t care if the victim died or is still in pains. They don´t care about the dead ones. They don´t care about those possibly new victims, who will come to eat the carcause. They just don´t care.

What does it tell about people?

We should respect each other.

We should respect Life.

(At the time when I made this piece, I used freshwater pearls as symbol of pain because of the way how they are manufactured. Nowadays I no longer use them, for I don´t think it is right/ justified to support that industry, not even in the name of awareness, art...)

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