Philosophy of the jewelry craft

Touch, change, move, design. The world is just waiting for us. And we have the power, the power, the joy and the will to play with her. You can call it work. I'd rather call it life. being human Because only when we feel that we are effective, that we can make a difference, can we really feel alive. We are not delivered, not helpless. On the contrary: we can become active, change what we don't like.

This is exactly what fascinates us so much about craftsmanship. It's more than just a job. It's a way of relating to the world. A world full of things that are mobile, that are just waiting for our intervention. This working life calls for the material, the resources. And they answer

The sociologist Hartmut Rosa writes: Be it kneading the dough in the bakery, sawing the boards in the carpentry shop, working the soil in the garden center, writing on the paper in the writing workshop or interpreting an experiment in the chemistry laboratory, it creates a own thing resonance. A thing resonance. Rosa understands this as a horizon of possibilities that the material opens up. In other words, possibilities that arise from the nature of the material.en.

The gold we use speaks to us. In its own way. It opens its own horizon. Without the recycled gold, there can be no sustainable piece of jewelry from Maren Jewellery. For it is not just the artistic creativity, not the idea itself, that leads to the piece of jewelry, but everything begins with the material.

The material already creates a desire to make the most of it. The shine, the smell and, last but not least, the knowledge of what others have already created from gold create a line on the horizon that needs to be moved: through your own possibilities. Then the question begins: What can my mind, my skills, my passion create in interaction with this material?

Rosa: Between plants and gardeners, between books and scholars, between planks and carpenters, dough and bakers, violin and fiddler, genuine response relationships emerge in the sense that is characteristic of resonant world relationships. The material with which the craftsman works seems to meet him, to answer. Materials, tools, hands. An almost magical relationship.g.

The world challenges us: to change. Their materiality is an invitation: lend a hand. The constant changing of the world one task: to exert influence. We have hands and the world has stuff. Let's make something out of it.