TIME COLLECTION
SERIES II — The Ornament of Remembrance
If Series I was the moment of awakening,
Series II is the moment time becomes visible.
Here, time accepts adornment. It begins to borrow signs from history, ceremony, honour, and ritual. These works acknowledge that memory does not live only inside us — it seeks surfaces, symbols, colours, emblems. Time, once felt, now wishes to be seen.
In this series, ornament is not decoration.
It is evidence.
Like the social world entering Proust’s narrative — gestures, insignia, inherited codes — Series II marks the first externalisation of inner time. What was private begins to present itself, cautiously, ceremonially, to others.
This is where time acquires a public face.
Emergence of Color
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Time begins to reveal itself through chromatic presence. Memory no longer remains neutral; it gains emotional temperature. Color marks the first differentiation within duration.
The Floral Moment
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
A fleeting instant unfolds like a bloom. This piece suggests time as something that opens briefly, intensely, and irreversibly—experienced rather than retained.
Radial Expansion
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Duration radiates outward. Time is no longer linear but centrifugal, extending from a central point of experience into multiple directions simultaneously.
Accumulated Signs
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Markers gather without hierarchy. Time becomes layered language, composed of traces, fragments, and references that resist a single reading.
Fragile Mechanism
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Function appears delicate, exposed, and vulnerable. Measurement exists, but its reliability is questioned. Time is shown as contingent rather than absolute.
Fragile Mechanism
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Function appears delicate, exposed, and vulnerable. Measurement exists, but its reliability is questioned. Time is shown as contingent rather than absolute.
Ornamented Continuum
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Ornament becomes narrative. Time decorates itself through accumulation, transforming function into expression and experience into form.