photo © Lisa-Marie Kaspar
I AM JULIKA, AN ARTIST/MAKER FROM HAMBURG. I MAKE SILVER JEWELLERY OBJECTS AND OTHER THINGS OF CONDITIONAL USEFULNESS. SOMETIMES I WRITE.
my work moves in a place that jewelry does not enter all too frequently — namely that of language. here, language is not decoration but the very substance of the pieces themselves; their titles are not product names but notions.
formally, the pieces feel deliberate and - in the best sense of the word - unfinished. they are organically and individually modeled and marked by an intentionally visible hand. the modeling wax leaves traces, and no cast piece is polished to the point of anonymity.
this corresponds thematically with what is often described with (and on) the objects themselves: the concern is with the provisional, the tentative and incomplete, as this is precisely the place, in both my work and my everyday life, where truth can be found.
each piece is made using the lost-wax casting process, also known as "cire perdue" — lost form. in this process, the mould, in which the wax-carved object is embedded and then burnt, must be destroyed in order to reach the silver-cast object. this process makes every piece one-of-a-kind.
if not explicitly stated otherwise (as is the case for particular collections), each piece is made only once and will not be reproduced again in another shape, form or size.
new pieces in different sizes will be introduced on an irregular basis.
in my workshops, i don't aim to pass on a technique, but to create a space where experimentation matters more than perfection. wax as a material invites exactly that: it is soft, yielding, forgiving, and malleable. this gives participants a freedom to experiment that not only places the process above the result, but also opens up the possibility for surprises.
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