DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

Posted on Instagram on May 31, 2019

"Non quid sed quemadmodum feras interest." (Seneca)
(Loosely translated in English: It matters not what you bear, but how you bear it.)
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Finally, something in silver that didn't melt or break or whatever.
After another bad night, after having stumbled on this sentence by my old friend Seneca 😜
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I spent the whole day on this. Very early morning rise, and diving into it. Hoping to be able to turn my vision into something tangible.
Craving the zone that jewelry making brings me to.
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Holding on to it.
Through a day filled with fear and despair and not remembering the right path to walk. Hands shaking and breath stuck.
And such a strong resistance to all that "bad".
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So this is about the dark night of the soul. And how to survive it, I guess.
It's about looking inside, looking inward, facing the darkness...and remembering that for every night there is a starry sky to look for.
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Hand fabricated, with a moth for guidance through darkness, and a skull for accepting to let go of what is dead.
The skull is a casting from a pearl skull I carved.
The stone is the beautiful blue goldstone, that glimmers with hope like a sky full of stars.
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Heavy and bold and battle-textured, an armor piece to draw strength from.