Shining DESPAIR
Carmen Lopez
Spain
Pendant “Everything’s fine”, 2024
Enamel, patinated brass, silver, 90×60 mm
Fire enamelled, sawn, patinated and polished.
Pendant “Everything’s fine”, 2024
Enamel, patinated brass, silver, 90×60 mm
Fire enamelled, sawn, patinated and polished.
Spinning reflections on the title of the competition, I remembered a phrase from a poem by Antonio Machado: “…And it is not true, pain, I know you…”
In my pendants I wanted to represent with the cut cabochon, uneven and patinated in dark, a place, moments of restlessness; the enamel with a reticule that reminds a little of the constellations and, from there, a shiny and polished spoon emerges, with it I want to represent light, hope. After pain, grief, illness, there is a need to live intensely.
The human being has enormous strength, this emerges and saves us, transcending ourselves. From there comes the title of the pieces: Everything is fine.