Jonathan Gard

I let my grief speak through the objects, and give absence a space in which to be present. Through the creative process and material design, I depict a complexity that touches on my own sorrows. Personal but not private. With my examples, the objects invite you to awaken something personal, something which touches your own grief.
Everyone can do something with their grief. Of course we need to work through it in different ways, but I want to assert that materials and objects have something to say to us. If we only listen.
In brief, I want to explain it like this: take that shirt that your friend always wore, or that ring from when you got married.
Your friend passed away.
You got divorced.
Whether it is about death or not, presence is created from absence through the objects that can be associated with a person or a situation. My objects are made as jewellery, or rather as fragments of something that has the potential to be worn as jewellery.