Magma Clasp Belt

Liliane Lijn Magma Clasp Belt, 2013 Black leather belt with silver clasp Edition of 8 + 1AP   This belt is an incredible example of Lijn’s awareness of how we wear different materials in different contexts.  Evocative of her visual abstractions and material manipulations, her concept of the primal earth are finely tuned with the geological sciences. The elements of the belt clasp resemble the same characteristics of the highly volatile liquid magma that keeps the planet alive and constantly rotating. This same magma that reaches the surface from volcanic eruptions, maintains the cycle of life and death, are drawn into continuous momentum of renewal and vitality that Lijn echoes in her Magma and Fossil series. The way this belt  so fittingly encase the wearer’s wrist engages in a very personal dialogue with Lijn’s motifs of the primal earth. In a very personal, meditative approach with these pieces, Lijn begins her pieces by manipulating a clump of very hot wax  to create the shapes and form.  The high temperature, although stung her skin as she works with the wax by hand, the malleable nature of the wax manipulated the mass to resemble the magma of the earth. As technology has allowed her […]

Tom Sachs New Bedford Watch, 2010 Black face and black leather strap Casio G Shock DW-5600 45 cm long Tom Sachs is known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. The New Bedford Watch has been handmade in the artist’s studio in New York. It wraps twice around the wrist, like the Hermés double-tour watches.  

Alighiero Boetti Orologio Annuale 1985 Ed. 12/50 1986 Ed. 57/200 1987 Ed. 24/50 Inframe: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Alighiero Boetti has designed 17 annual watches from 1977 to 1994. Each year has a different edition number of 50, 100 or 200. The watches are manual winding timepieces, stainless steel box and leather strap. Watch length: 23 cm. (9 in). Incised ‘Alighiero Boetti’ and numbered on the reverse of the watch case. Titled, dated, annotated.

Tom Sachs Space Program Tie Clip, 2013 Silver plated hand-engraved tie clip Limited edition Tom Sachs is known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. The Space Program Tie Clip was worn by Team Grumman during Space Program: MARS. Its intention is to keep your tie safe from chainsaws, resin, red beans and rice.