Myrrha

7 x 2 x 2 cm

sterling silver

Eyes staring at the movements of the cardinal points, fuelled by ancient silversmithing art and timeless charms as much as from feminist science-fictions, all roads led me to this deep exploration. The aspect blurs the origin, whispering dateless forms and subjects that survive us. It does not matter if these stories do not exist yet, it is the act of wearing these jewels that make them happen. Drawing my inspiration from literature and mythology, I use symbols and metaphors to evoke strength, courage, protection, mystery. Conical and domed volumes, symbolic triangles and circles designed as temples, shelters, containers, nurturing breasts. Jewellery worn as talismans to go on with this nomadic life, with the serene certainty that one does not know what tomorrow will be made of. May wearing those jewels empower you as if you had just been tattooed, facing the horizon with an everlasting light narrowing your eyes.

Marine graduated in 2015 from the Nantes School of Fine Arts, in the West of France, where she learned to express herself with symbols. In parallel, she quenches her thirst for knowledge with books and at various workshops : glassblowers, wool worker, brass smith. During these peregrinations, she comes across jewellery among other things, an expressionist form of micro-sculpture. She also becomes aware of the importance of passing on secular techniques. Her thumb in the air, her feet on the pedals, her nose stuck at the window of trains and her head in the clouds in both Europe and North America, her path leads her to Quebec in the summer of 2016. She ends up staying and graduates from the École de Joaillerie de Montréal four years later. During this time, she sets up her studio in the skoolie home she lives in since May 2020. For now, it is parked at a ceramist in the region of Charlevoix, QC, where she takes courses. These encounters provide endless sources of inspiration, leading her jewellery work to revive forms and functions from ancient times or from yesterday, to reinvent their magical potential for 13 minutes from now.