What I’ve learned about family and memory from handling people’s heirlooms
telegraph.co.ukA post shared by Militza Ortiz Jewellery (@militzaortizjewellery)I’ve learned how talismanic jewellery can be. People wear it for luck, or to feel close to their relatives, or to remember the past.
It falls between art, fashion, and the occult. Even if we don’t know it, we all know tonnes of people who wear chains inside their shirts with something of huge significance to them.
I have a friend who wears a chain that's like a keychain she hangs so much stuff hanging on it, but you never see it. It's something that she keeps very close and each one of those charms has huge significance to her.
They're things that have been handed down, things that were gifted to her; things that matter.Now, when I make bespoke jewellery I try to capture people’s stories.
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