FRAGILITY
Rikke Lunnemann
Denmark

How Much Care Do You Need Today?
A five-meter-long bandage gilded with 24ct gold leaf.
You can cut into it – a small piece if you need a little, a larger one if the day hurts.
It is jewellery, but it refuses to be just jewellery.
It seeks to become care itself — a quiet ritual questioning our fear of showing what is fragile.
It explores fragility as a shared human condition – something we try to hide or heal in a world that celebrates strength and perfection. By covering a simple plaster with gold, a tension appears: is it luxury, or is it care? Is it comfort, or a surface we polish to disguise what’s tender beneath?
Fragility is not weakness it is honesty.
The golden bandage becomes an invitation to pause, to feel, and to ask –
How much care do you need today?

To be cut to individual Brooches « How Much Care Do You Need Today? », 2025
5000x65mm / rolled: ø150 x 65 mm / 125 gr
5 meters Sticky Bandage and 24 ct gold leaf
Guilding

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