TIME COLLECTION
SERIES III — The Fracture of Duration
If Series I was awakening
and Series II was appearance,
Series III is rupture.
Here, time no longer flows as a line, nor presents itself as ceremony. It fractures, multiplies, folds in on itself. Duration is exposed as unstable — composed of interruptions, overlaps, and moments that refuse to align.
This is the Proustian crisis: the instant when memory stops obeying chronology. Past and present collide. Seconds expand, years collapse. Time ceases to be trusted.
In Series III, the object is no longer an emblem — it becomes a mechanism. Gears, rotations, crossings, and radial forms appear. The jewelry does not represent time; it behaves like time.
This is the most turbulent act of the collection.
First Compression
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Time contracts. Experience is no longer expansive but condensed, carrying intensity within reduced space. Memory becomes compact and charged.
Circular Recall
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Time returns upon itself. The piece evokes recurrence, suggesting that memory does not progress forward but loops inward.
Structural Core
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
At the center, complexity stabilizes. This object proposes time as an engineered construct, held together by internal coherence rather than surface order.
Internal Architecture
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Time reveals its inner scaffolding. Mechanism and memory merge, exposing duration as something built, assembled, and sustained.
Crossed Temporal Axes
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Multiple directions intersect. Past, present, and anticipation coexist, denying linear progression and embracing simultaneity.
Encumbered Measure
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
Time bears weight. The object acknowledges duration as something carried—sometimes heavy, sometimes resistant, never neutral.
Mechanical Memory
Pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
Florence, 2010–2011
The series concludes with memory rendered mechanical. Time is no longer abstract; it is operational, internalized, and persistent.