Why I wanted to create my Life/Death mask while still alive?
I believe creating a Life/Death mask is a sublime moment between life and death, art and identity. It is a “living memorial” to a person still alive, an attempt to capture a person at a specific moment. It extends both the matter of ident
ity and temporality beyond pictorialism into literalism and beyond, an exploration of ones own mortality in self-portraits. When I look at my own death/life mask it is me, but also not me, a portrait of myself, capturing a certain chapter in my life but also making me in a way immortal and not constrain to a specific time. AETERNUM is a mourning jewel I made for my loved ones, for when I depart. My death/life mask become something universal for me, it is a print of my own nature and experience partakes in a state of human being.
Jewellery, Photogrammetry, Virtual Reality, Fashion Artefact, Jewellery Design, Jewels, Beads, Gemstones, Pearl, Softstones, Sculpting, Carving, Digital Technology
CNC Milling, 3D printing, Metalsmith, Virtual Reality, Digital Technology, Wax casting
Bronze, Alabaster, South-Sea Pearl
Photogrammetry, CNC Milling
