To all the flowers that died this year

How can we keep traces of things that are precious to us once they have gone? How can we come to terms with endings? Exploring these poetic questions, Salomé Stein invited people to lend her temporal objects that are in a transition phase – from a pair of dried up contact lenses, to an empty perfume bottle from a loved one who had passed away. She then carefully documented these objects and translated their qualities into wearable jewellery made out of porcelain – a material known for its fragility – before being wrapped into bundles as something precious to be treasured and held on to. Maybe they will break again, maybe they won’t. Either way, their existence reminds us that even we, as humans, are fragile.