The Juxtaposition project presents a collection of designer silver jewelry that explores the possibilities of combining delicate filigree filling with massive cast structures modeled by hand in wax or in a digital environment.
The author explores the possibilities of combining fine filigree wires with robust shapes and digitally or manually modeled structures. She is interested in the tension between materials – massive silver casting and fragile silver wire.
She creates objects that not only connect these opposites, but transform them into a visual and technical dialogue. The collection opens up space for new interpretations of filigree in the context of contemporary design.
The name of the Juxtaposition project refers to a series of intentionally created contrasts that are at the core of this collection:
old × new massive × subtle planar × spatial manual × digital
The collection consists of silver cast jewelry with filigree, using different approaches to creating basic shapes. Some objects were hand-modeled in wax, creating more organic and intimate forms with the expression of the author’s hand. Others were designed digitally in a 3D environment, which gives them precise, parametric geometry. Hollow or semi-open structures cast in silver are then manually filled with filigree – a delicate “wire lace”.
The combination of two worlds – craft tradition and digital innovation – represents both an artistic and technical challenge.
It requires precise planning, craftsmanship and a feeling for the material, in which silver wire “draws” into matter and creates a new visual language where tradition meets technology.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council
The filigree connection 