Jewelry Collection

CEDRIC JACQUEMYN

The Jewelry line is a continuous project in close collaboration with Antwerp-based Atelier11. Designed by Cedric and handmade in Antwerp in limited, numbered editions.

1. DESTRUCTION - REGENERATION - FERTILITY

(collection launched 2011)

Focussing on the direct consequences of global warming and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: A giant vault located deep in the permafrost on the island of Spitsbergen, storing about half a million seeds, meant to protect the world’s vegetal diversity from natural or manmade disasters. However, if all the ice would melt, even this vault can’t protect us from losing the biodiversity... To translate my concern: I put seedlings into a small vault-looking protective space, So we can carry them with us, trying to protect what remains...

HEKLA Brooche & KRAFLA Necklace — Glass and copper containing a plantsprout cast in resin. edition of 50. Handmade in Anwerp.

These copper time capsules translate the paradox: the duality of carrying around fertility, a cure for destruction, a talisman for renewal. But at the same time the incarnation of one of the most destructive forces known to men...

MYRDALSSANDUR Body Necklace — Copper or Silver containing vulcanic black sand from the Myrdalssandur in Iceland. edition of 50. Handmade in Anwerp. 

EYJAFALLAJOKULL Necklace — Copper vault containing ashes from the Icelandic Eyjafallajokull vulcano, eruption of 2010. edition of 50. Handmade in Anwerp. 

2. PRESERVATION — CONSERVATION

(collection launched 2013)

Focussing on the devastating consequences of 'modernising' the Amazon, which results in the disappearing of tribes, their rituals and their knowledge. Burning their lands, murdering their peoples... for the sake of agricultural cultivation...

SAGE - A plant that is used for communicating with the ancestors and for clearing out bad spirits - as the remains of a disappearing era and ritual grounds. A dissapearing world... The burned sage leaf is a reminder of what remains, a last connection to the ancestors. By locking it in a double glass container i wanted to focus on their need of protection and the fragility of their existance. 

Launched in 2013 for REMAINS OF MUTED BELIEFS and TO THE DEPTHS OF THE LAST RESERVE in an edition of 25 each — handblown glass and copper — handmade in Antwerp.

HUAORANI 'BURN' Necklace — containing a burned sage leaf.

HUAORANI 'SEED' Necklace — containing sage seeds.

RONDONIA assymetric Necklace — containing Soy seeds.

AWA
"AMAZON SAVIOUR SCULPTURE"

In continuation of the previous series, I have created a copper and glass timecapsule containing sand, stone and a burned twig as the remains of a disappearing era and ritual grounds. a dissapearing world...

Glass, copper, stone, wood and sand
edition 1 of 1, 2013, Handmade in Antwerp

3. DISSAPEARING - PROTECTING

(collection launched 2015)

TSACHILLA copper Cuffs — Handhammered copper.

TONATIUH Bracelets — Handhammered Copper (or) Silver bracelet.

ZINAVE / ZAMBEZE bracelets
2 layered or 3 layered fragmented Buffalo Horn interfixed with Copper. edition of 20.

SENGE ring
2 layered or 3 layered fragmented Buffalo Horn interfixed with Copper. edition of 20.

ZINGELA necklace
3 layered fragmented Buffalo Horn interfixed with Copper. edition of 3.

launched in 2015 for TO THE DEPTHS OF THE LAST RESERVE

4. MIGRATION - LIBERTY

(collection launched 2018)

IF THIS IS THE END. WHAT IF IT IS?
Necklace
Handstamped plate on copper or silver necklace
constructed from various buckles and chains.

GOURMETTE Bracelet
Copper or silver bracelet constructed from various chains.

HERE IS NO BORDER ONLY DUST
bracelet
Handstamped plate on copper bracelet constructed from various chains

launched in 2017 for HERE IS NO BORDER ONLY DUST — IF THIS IS THE END WHAT IF IT IS? — GEWORFENHEIT