IT PROVIDES A DISCOURSE ON HUMAN SITUATIONS. Jewelry is not only a precious and shiny object that makes us look good or marks our social status. Contemporary jewelry can and should be an object that provides a discourse on human situations, such as thoughts, memories, shortcomings, and feelings. Joy or sadness and many other situations can be expressed through it.
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“The necklace is art jewelry because it is a form of expression with which I try to remember all those thoughts of anguish, silence and loss experienced during the pandemic. Only I have the key of my memories and thoughts of what I lost during the pandemic.” —Carlos Augusto Graterol Matamoros