Vultus et anima – ansikte och själ
Resin, silver, titanium, flocking fiber, paint, mica powder
What happens when you turn your own face into an object of study -not in a mirror, but as material?
In my degree project, I use my own face to explore emotion, memory, and embodiment. The project consists of six jewelry pieces, each based on 3D scans of my face captured in different emotional expressions: joy, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, and sadness. These faces are transformed into contemporary cameos, a historical jewelry form traditionally associated with idealized female profiles carved from shell or stone. Here, the expressions are raw, exaggerated, and deeply human.
Each face is framed by 3D-scanned memory objects from my childhood fragments like a plastic toy, an earring, or a potato chip. Together, they form emotional assemblages in which face and object interact to tell stories of feelings, the body, and personal history.
The result is a collection of six wearable pieces, each one an emotion, suspended in time.
