TIME COLLECTION
SERIES I — The First Suspension
Time does not begin when we measure it.
It begins when we notice it.
Series I marks the first interruption — the moment when movement pauses and awareness enters. These works do not commemorate events; they preserve states of being. Each piece suspends a fragment of lived time, not to dominate it, but to hold it close.
Like the first pages of In Search of Lost Time, this series is quiet, personal, almost private. Nothing declares itself yet — but everything has already begun.
Here, time is not counted. It is felt.
The Inaugural Stillness
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
The first articulation of time as awareness. A suspended mechanism marks the moment when duration becomes perceptible, not measured. Stillness here is not absence, but the condition that allows time to emerge.
Moment Held
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
This piece proposes time as something gently contained rather than controlled. Balance replaces precision, and the object suggests memory preserved without fixation, held in a fragile equilibrium.
The First Weight of Memory
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Layers accumulate and time acquires density. Memory is rendered tactile, no longer fleeting but carried. The object introduces mass as a metaphor for lived duration.
Before the Turning
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
A moment of suspension precedes transformation. Measurement is implied yet inactive, evoking imminence without resolution. Time pauses here, poised between awareness and action.
Trace of Passage
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
This work records movement through residue rather than motion. Time leaves its mark indirectly, suggesting that passage is known not by speed, but by what remains after it has passed.
The Interior Measure
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Measurement turns inward. The object no longer refers to external chronology but to personal duration—time felt rather than counted. Intimacy replaces universality.
Suspended Interval
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
An interval is isolated and held open. Neither beginning nor end is defined, allowing time to exist as a continuous present. The piece emphasizes duration as experience rather than sequence.
Threshold of Continuity
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
The closing work of Series I marks a threshold. Time is no longer merely observed; it prepares to unfold outward. This object completes the inaugural cycle, opening the way toward expansion in the following series.