Sylvie Godel

The collection Lots of Tears is a reflection on a difficult chapter of my life. A burnout led me into an eleven-month depression, during which I cried almost every day. What to do with all these tears? Let them flow? Wipe them away with a handkerchief? Or turn them into something else? Searching, observing, collecting, sleeping, shaping, listening, embodying, materializing, defining, speaking, reading, writing, walking, stitching, thinking, imagining, caring, letting it come, documenting. Over time, the restless water crystallized into pearls of Bone China—the whitest, most noble of porcelains. A process of recovery, yet one that preserves the imprint of sorrow through a collection of bodily artifacts: sculptural and functional necklaces and brooches in clay, complemented by perforated paper handkerchiefs and cotton ribbons embroidered with expressions on tears.

LOTS OF TEARS

Installation Perforated Paper accompanying an Installation of:

Papers, Porcelain Necklaces, Cotton Ribbons embroidered with Silk Thread