Vessel for marijuana + silver smoking pipe.

"Humankind has always searched for the magic in life. In times marked by rationalism, spiritualism and magic have become even  more  desired. Those concepts have , as so many other concepts and ideas in the contemporary, been kidnapped by a consumerist  culture, in which  drugs can sometimes offer a way to the magic and the spiritual but also to the highly desired moment of rest. Those mental states can easily be reached and consumed as anything else in the contemporary consumerist culture.

In my own youth, the use of marijuana was often associated with rituals of masculinity which made me feel both uncomfortable and excluded since I didn't find any interest of being a part of it and honestly didn't know how to do it.

 In the work Portal, we see signs of this masculinity ritual - as a monument over something both desirable and limiting "

UP IN SMOKE: Contemporary Jewelers, Silversmiths and Designers Take On Marijuana JANUARY 16 – FEBRUARY 21, 2021