Nico Sales Spain
North brooch
Piece created for Challenge 2023 Jewelry and Travel (maximum price 150€)
Materials handcarved slate stone, brass, silver, steel
Size 70x30x7mm
It is important to be oriented when travelling. In ancient times, Chinese compasses marked south as the point to reach, but north was identified as a place where death awaited.
Nowadays the north is the point that these tools mark, the north protects itself, the north is already where everyone would like to get to.
The representations of the world mark the north up, powerful, rich... however the world is a sphere, orbiting in nothingness, where there is no up or down, no north or south and we decide where we want the red arrow to point.
