JUAN HARNIE / BELGIUM

Necklace, Ext01, 2019
Textile, latex, rope, sewing thread.
Machine stitching, hand sewing and
covering textile with latex to prevent
it from unravelling

Extremity
I find hands one of the most beautiful body parts; they are useful and elegant
at the same time. But, as a jewellery designer you can get a lot of cuts and
bruises when you’re working, something I try to avoid as much as possible.
It’s also a great fear of mine to lose my hands or at least not being able to
use them anymore!
In these pieces I try to desperately repair or at least patch-up these broken
hands and put lost parts together to give them a new purpose, an attempt to
fight my own fear of damaging my hands. The biggest part of the pieces is hand
sown, therefor I need my own hands to repair these broken ones. I use scars
and stitches (things you would like to keep away from your hands) as
decorative details.