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Process: Teresa Earrings
Gaudi was both thematically and aesthetically in line with our first season Ritual Romance, so we developed the Teresa Earrings as a kind of love letter to him. The springboard for the design was the gnarly elegance of his wrought-iron gate in front of St. Teresa school in Barcelona.
We started to brainstorm a little bit. Definitely too baroque right here. Time to deconstruct.
…And...
“Yet the vessel’s sacredness does not reside in the preciousness of its bronze, in the beauty of its ornamentation, in the rarity of its jade or in the edibility of grain. Whence does its sacredness come? It is sacred not because it is useful or handsome but because it is a constitutive element in the ceremony. It is sacred by virtue of its participation in rite, in holy ceremony. In isolation...
