Year: 2018, Title:" 12 Months on the Cherry Street" Necklace, Photo credit: Koichiro Shiiki, Size: L470 x h36 x d13 mm, Sterling silver (rhodium or k18 plated), methacrylate resin, moonstone, tourmaline, emerald, CZ, color sapphire, green garnet Price : € 6880
Year: 2018, Title: " 12 Months on the Cherry Street " Necklace, Photo credit: Asagi Maeda, Size: L470 x h36 x d13 mm, Sterling silver (rhodium or k18 plated), methacrylate resin, moonstone, tourmaline, emerald, CZ, color sapphire, green garnet ( close up pictures of the jewelry item '12 Months on the Cherry Street' )
'12 months on the cherry street' a brief Story by asagi maeda
12 months on the cherry street Japanese people have expressed nature changes in the four seasons into arts and literaturefor a very long time. I also tried to express the changes in the four seasons in my jewelry with cherry blossom trees which Japanese people love. There are lots of streets with cherry blossom trees in Japan. We go picnic under the trees in spring. I imagined stories under the trees throughout the year. Snowing in January, st. Valentine‘s day inFebruary, cherry blossom brooms in March, they fall in April, fresh green in May, rainy season in June, feel nice under trees in July, kids catch insects inAugust, scents of autumn in September, reading books in October, Autumn leaves in November, they fall in December.I connect each months by the word “and then”. Time passes next to next... it’s Nature.
Year: 2019, Title: 'Big Fish', Pendant/Necklace, Sterling silver,k18, rock crystal quartz, Photo: Asagi Maeda, Size: w22 x h38 x d10mm Price: € 720
'Big FISH' a brief STORY by asagi maeda
Big Fish ' I found a big fish in this stone, that’s how I come up with the idea. Do you see it? '
LOVE ' Because this shape of pink amber looks like a heart, I thought I would make lovers. It’s a brooch. I would like you to wear this heart on your heart.'
Year: 2017, Title:' Let’s walk hand in hand ', Pendant/Necklace, Sterling silver, k18, crystallized agate, cz , Photo: Asagi Maeda, Size: w20 x h49 x d19mm Price :€ 770
'lET'S WALK HAND IN HAND' a brief STORY by asagi maeda
Let’s go hand in hand ' I like the title and I’ve made series under the same title. When it may difficult or fear to proceed next, it’s easier if you have someone to walk hand in hand. It’s a pendant to encourage you and it’s also a message here I am to go with you. In this pendant, I imagined they are somewhere like a cave, it’s beautiful place but it may little scared to proceed. But you have a companion to go with. Let’s proceed to bright future. '
Year: 2020, Title: "Everyone is looking up the Moon", Pendant/Necklace, Porcelain, sterling silver, k18, Size: w63 x h70 x d31mm, Photo: Asagi Maeda Price: € 1390
'Everyone is looking up the moon' a brief STORY by asagi maeda
Everyone is looking up the moon ' I like to use different material experimentally in my jewelry. I used porcelain this time. I shaped whatever I feel like with porcelain, then I look at it until I could imagine those small people starts to act on it. With this shape, I saw people looking up the moon through windows. Everyone is looking up the moon. The moon is only one, so everyone is looking up the same moon.When I look up the moon, I always imagine other people who is looking up the moon at the same time. '
Year: 2017, Title: 'A Room of Mathematics', Pendant/Necklace, Sterling silver, k18, blue opal, porcelain, Size: w72 x h69 x d35mm Price: € 1410
'A room of mathematics STORY' A BRIEF STORY BY ASAGI MAEDA
A room of mathematics ' This is also a work I experimented with porcelain. I played with painting as well. I like numbers and write numbers on the porcelain, I came up with the title from here. It’s kind of a room inside of the brain, a mathematic room, you may go there to think of beautiful mystery of relationship between universe and numbers. '
Year: 2017, Title: 'Thoughts makes things', Pendant/Necklace, Sterling silver, aquamarines, blue topaz, k18, Photo credit: Koichiro Shiiki, Size: w66 x h58 x d38mm Price : € 2110
'THOUGHTS MAKE THINGS' A BRIEF STORY BY ASAGI MAEDA
Thoughts make things "I tried to express thoughts which is invisible to visible. It’s invisible in reality, but the thoughts turn round and round then crystallize into reality. Dreams come true. Thoughts make things. We are all creators of our lives."
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