8 June until 20 August 2025
Julia Walter - Mother Earth
jewellery
For a new work cycle I am literally using the earth from the ground of my mothers garden. I use the processed earth as a sculpting material and fire it like clay. Planting a tree in my mom's garden, I observed the soil being dense and almost like clay. About a year ago, in May 2024, I started to experiment, to filter and to refine the earth, to process it into a smooth clay, which I can use to make small wearable sculptures. I am inspired by iconography which all humans can read: animals, shells, bones, plants, the smooth shapes of the human body. I dont ignore our subconscious fear of demons and of the dark.
The forms I create remind us of something, but it is not quite direct what they mean.
2016 - I started an ongoing series of Dream Dialogue pendants, which originate from my sleep.
I start with drawing lines on paper, right at the moment when I wake up.
The undefined, intuitive drawings are something I can take out of my dreams into being awake and are used as inspiration for the work series.
The Mother Earth project is a continuation of the Dream Dialogue work.
I am occupied with the question if there are universally intelligible symbols and archetypes, which within themselves, hold an inherent power. I simplify, disguise and play with a motive in a way, which gives room for new interpretations. By using soil, I am combining the elements of earth, water and fire in one piece. Jewellery is one of the first art forms which distinguishes us as being human. The wearing of jewellery 60 000 years ago marks the beginning of modern human behavior and is the first sign of humans communicating through symbols. A string of grass and a shell or a stone with a hole, can make a necklace, can be worn as an amulet. My love for the pendant continues 🙂
