“generative iterations”

How OLIWON came to light

It all began with a somewhat inevitably meditative practice.

No specific plans, no sketches.

Expectations were entirely removed, replaced by a blind commitment to the process: showing up and listening to the new shapes, as they gradually emerged from an ocean of repetitive ones.

5 silver wire ingots in front of a rolling mill. A delicate light illuminates the dark and greasy steel wheels of the rolling mill in the background.

A serie of 20 5cm segments of straight silver round wire on a soldering block. Some of them loosely held in an open pair of tweezers that has its tips blackened by use, others laying on the soldering block.

A preliminary step of making every piece consisted of repeating the same motif, over and over again.

Soon enough, an army of silver jump rings proliferated on the bench.

As they came together, they engaged in their own dialogue and slowly gave birth to a new vocabulary of forms: rings, earrings, necklaces in soothing round shapes to adorn our body and soul.

With time, a seemingly ungrateful set of tasks revealed itself being an immensely nourishing routine.

3 silver rings placed on a mirror in front of a window float delicately on the reflection of a textured, translucent window glass.

A fragment of a silver necklace made of a serie of interlocked cycles seems to be floating in the clear blue sky reflecting itself in the mirror it lies on.

Having to repeat cycles time after time might appear as deceiving at first.

Yet, what if we patiently learn to let go of the outcome and listen to what the (un)known has to teach us?

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PROCESSSylviaMay 13, 2023