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2025. current obsession’s GEMZ program finalist project.
copper, .925 plating, usb port inputs and outputs, apoxie sculpt, paint, adhesive.
these are my veins—circuit board connections wrapped in coiling cylinders
plug me in and play
stroke warm keys
caress glowing screens
witness ritual clicking
breathe electric hums
swallow scrolling movements
slide down depths of fleshy insides
no one knows me as intimately; algorithms feed me and metal constructs my hardware body.
^photos by Emily Warnock
ABOUT THE GEMZ PROGRAM:
From
a pool of 57 international participants, and following months of
lectures and workshops, six emerging talents – Stefan Boerkamp (NL), Ruochong Cheng (CN), Tina Jiao (CN), rae richards (US), Anna Rusínová (CZ) and Zoé Kiner-Wolff (FR)
– were selected to develop their projects under the one-to-one guidance
of jewellery artists Benedikt Fischer, Irma Földényi and Jing He. Their
speculative jewellery collections are, for the first time since the
programme began, brought together in a book, GEMZ: WET.