Shining DESPAIR
Pilar Viedma
Spain

Brooch “Green Brushstrokes”, 2024
Oxidized silver, green pigments, aerosol resin, steel
Traditional jewelry techniques (sheet metal cutting with a saw, textured lamination, torch welding and silver soldering, silver oxidation) and artistic techniques for applying color to metal (spraying pigments and fixing with aerosol resin, making several layers with 24-hour maturation and washing and drying between layers)
Photo : creaty estudio

Brooch “Red Brushstrokes”, 2024
Oxidized silver, red pigments, aerosol resin, steel
Traditional jewelry techniques (sheet metal cutting with a saw, textured lamination, torch welding and silver soldering, silver oxidation) and artistic techniques for applying color to metal (spraying pigments and fixing with aerosol resin, making several layers with 24-hour maturation and washing and drying between layers)
Photo : creaty estudio

As every year, at the beginning of autumn, the Mediterranean people know that one day the floodgates of heaven will open, it will start to rain with unprecedented force and will sweep away everything in its path.
It is a challenge between men and nature. Earth, air, fire and water are the four elements that make up the matter, that saves you or kills you irrationally, but also depending on how we behave towards it, and scientists have been warning for some time that measures must be taken. The earth that feeds you can crush with an earthquake, the air with that pleasant breeze can become a devastating hurricane, the fire in the fireplace on a winter day is capable of setting fire to forests and the water you drink can sweep away your entire life, as has happened in Valencia. In the midst of this desolation we are moved by the solidarity of people who give what they have and young people, who have taken exemplary actions, cry out: “we don’t have money, but we do have two hands with which to help.” With these pieces, which are brushstrokes of bright colors, I want to provide a ray of light and hope and call for action, energy and joy with red but also for hope, youth and life with green.

More « Shining DESPAIR »

Shining Despair – Marilyn Koch / USA

We Are A Colony is an uncanny …

Shining Despair – Ute van der Plaats / Belgium

When the relentless madness of this world is clouding my heart, I take a walk in the woods …

Shining Despair – Clara del Papa / Italy-Venezuela

My work explores the delicate balance between darkness and light.

Shining Despair – Katherine Hubble / Australia

Cultured pearls are created by implanting an irritant into an oyster.

Shining Despair – Sanna Svedestedt / Sweden

The Dropped Ice Cream brooches offer a surreal take on the iconic moment …

Shining Despair – Donald Friedlich / USA

For most of us despair comes and goes.

Shining Despair – Jeanine van der Linde / Netherlands

In today’s world, where we face significant challenges …

Shining Despair – Juan Riusech / Spain

« Blurred Lines of Despair » explores the tangible manifestation of emotional unraveling.

Shining Despair – Yichen Dong & Stacey Huang / China

Many spend their lives chasing ‘key moments,’ …

Shining Despair – Aya Iwata / Japan

The theme « Shining Despair » merges two opposing concepts: brilliance and despair.