THE SEASON SERIES STUDIES
Enamel Paint, Stainless Steel, Sterling Silver and Timber Veneer
The Season Series Studies looked at the notion of Empty Diary Pieces, as a platform for the experimentation of furthering the surfaces with traditional and contemporary Vietnamese lacquering methods. The idea is to record onto these designed surfaces. Brooches of hollow shaped forms reflective of lacquer objects, surface detailed with decorative motifs and patterns are the main outcome before their next transitional application. They are brooches to be worn and to remind us of an ancient tradition in craft. These series were framed through a workshop led by the amazing contemporary jeweller Otto Künzli.

500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments for the Body (A Lark Jewelry Book)
by Marthe Le Van
Published on Page 319

a life in the day of... (workshop and exhibition)
masterclass with Otto Künzli back in 2003.
Sydney College of the Arts to

Otto writes:
"Born to be a voyeur.
Jewellery is a constructive medium, a proven artistic form of expression, a place for recording thoughts, emotions and stories that goldsmiths find worth telling.
Jewellery is also a trusty vehicle for personal interpretation, a receptacle for collecting and keeping individual memories; a book whose entries are reserved for the wearer, not to be read but to be felt.
Jewellery is full of traces and marks. Visible and invisible it attracts a response sensual and physical.
Jewellery accumulates and collects daily life.
Jewellery is a diary
Anonymous becomes personal.                                        
Private becomes available.
Connected with your body, the jewellery goes wherever you go. If you leave, the jewellery goes with you.                       
You show the world your jewellery. And you show your jewellery the world.
I am proud that my art is applied. "