patricia lemaire’s traces of life
Susan Lomuto | Mar 08, 2010 | Comments 3
Sculptor and jewelry artist Patricia Lemaire lets silver, nickel silver and ordinary materials like plants, bone and urchin quills tell her poetic narrative. The unconventional materials – fragile (plants), poor (bone) and misappropriated (urchin quills) – find new meaning as Lemaire uses them to express the “fragility of life and womanhood” in a collection of jewelry and sculptures.
Salutation, brooch
Salutation, detail
La Passion, sculpture
Brooch
Douxpiquants, brooch
Promenadebucolique, sculpture
“Diverting them from their usual context, they take a new direction. They take shape in unlikely juxtapositions, sometimes to the verge of collapse, calling or referring to an absent body, dreamed, fantasized. Traces of life, steeped in contradiction, oscillating between strength and weakness, attraction and repulsion, pain and stroke, sacrifice and offering.”
More of Lemaire’s work at Galerie-Orfeo
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Wonderful work! I’m not getting fragile though. It’s been my experience that women are tough, strong and resourceful. Most women I know have been able to create and preserve beauty in their lives, despite the harsh realities of living… That is what I am seeing here, well done!
Oh, you are a muse. I’ve been thinking about expanding more from jewelry to large object. But this morning’s post inspired me to take the designs that are swirling in my head and explore making them as brooches. It always seems to come back to adornment for some of us. Thanks so much, Susan.
Yes, Susan, great choice ! Patricia’s work is wonderful, expressive and pretty amazing isn’t it!