Designed by Nature

For centuries, nature has been a source to artists and crafts people. A source of inspiration, both in form and material. So, too, for gold and silversmiths. Nature, in its endless variety, captured – sometimes literally- in gold and silver. Frozen, as it were, in time and space, in a capsule of precious metal. What if we were to return these animals, flowers and plants to nature? Touched by humans, enshrined in a glossy material, immobile. What would such an unexpected return of these frozen creatures–so powerful a contrast with the breathing, ever shifting environment that gave birth to them – look like?