Hanna Havdell

In my degree project, I explore how memories, collections, and fragments can be embodied in jewellery and small objects in metal.

My cast objects are made in such thin moulds that are not completely filled, and have become like a shadow of what they could have been. My etchings on metal plates of photographs from old family albums are partially eroded, like a faded memory of a moment. Some objects are sewn together with textile threads that will eventually deteriorate and release the metal parts — fragments of something that no longer exists.

The objects are primarily charms and brooches. Charm bracelets are wearable interactive miniature collections where one can add and remove items indefinitely. A brooch worn close to the heart automatically becomes something intimate, personal, a part of the wearer.

The jewellery gives the feeling that they are fragments of a larger whole, a scattered collection from a long-lost place, parts of a memory that we can sense but not fully understand.