Impressions in Time

Impressions in Time

Impressions in Time

Using wax to capture and preserve passing moments in someone’s life, Lavinia has designed a collection of commemorative jewellery. The pieces are responsive, picking up knocks, scrapes and damage that change the designs in unique ways and trace the wearer’s experiences. The jewellery is shaped in the form of a number that specifies the hours, days or weeks over which the changes took place.

Once worn, the pieces are preserved through lost wax casting; a process that solidifies the imprints in gold to reflect the preciousness of the memory that has been captured. This final, lasting, symbolic piece permanently memorializes moments that would normally be lost. The jewellery becomes an irreplaceable record or commemoration of those moments.

7 days of Lavinia Bo's life have been preserved by the necklace in these images. The 7 day necklace shows how each piece is one of a kind, unique to the wearer and should provoke an emotional response. Preserved in steel and gold, Lavinia sees these pieces as having a similar function to engraved jewellery, only instead of representations in lettering and dates, this contemporary interpretation captures real traces of the wearer’s experience.

Using wax to capture and preserve passing moments in someone’s life, Lavinia has designed a collection of commemorative jewellery. The pieces are responsive, picking up knocks, scrapes and damage that change the designs in unique ways and trace the wearer’s experiences. The jewellery is shaped in the form of a number that specifies the hours, days or weeks over which the changes took place.

Once worn, the pieces are preserved through lost wax casting; a process that solidifies the imprints in gold to reflect the preciousness of the memory that has been captured. This final, lasting, symbolic piece permanently memorializes moments that would normally be lost. The jewellery becomes an irreplaceable record or commemoration of those moments.

7 days of Lavinia Bo's life have been preserved by the necklace in these images. The 7 day necklace shows how each piece is one of a kind, unique to the wearer and should provoke an emotional response. Preserved in steel and gold, Lavinia sees these pieces as having a similar function to engraved jewellery, only instead of representations in lettering and dates, this contemporary interpretation captures real traces of the wearer’s experience.

Pendent: 3cm x 6cm
Wire Chain length: 80cm

Initial form: Steal beading wire, steel, and wax
Preserved form: Steal beading wire, steel, and gold plate

Pendent: 3cm x 6cm
Wire Chain length: 80cm

Initial form: Steal beading wire, steel, and wax
Preserved form: Steal beading wire, steel, and gold plate

https://dautor.ro/en/autor-lara-adkins-csm-en/

https://youtu.be/7ctojjOSEqo

https://collective-individuals.com/lavinia-bo/

Without interaction between the jewellery, the wearer and other people the designs on the jewellery would not exist. I, therefore, believe that my work fits the theme of Democratic experiments very well as a physical exploration of human experience, interaction and the passing of time. The 7 day necklace has recorded human nature, everybody who touches the piece takes part in its design, becoming the ultimate democracy preserved in gold forevermore. The process of wearing the wax piece causes the design to change from generic and angular to unique, individual and organic. Everything takes part in designing this jewellery including the weather, the environment and the surrounding people.