Tanel Veenre: Dust, universe & queen

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Tanel Veenre

Jewellery?
These earrings were born of lightness. From the beauty of the game, the seal of fate, fishing line bobbers and dust-sugared lace. From an attempt to create large forms while remaining small in terms of weight.

Dust?
One midwinter, I was grinding charred wood into a fine dust in a mortar. I then experimented by painting with lazurite and turquoise, silver dust from my goldsmith’s smock … In the spring, I found myself in a little shop in a side street in Venice, where I was dazzled by a whole wall full of natural pigments and dyes. At first I asked for ultramarine and red earth, and one thing led to another…
But the most important component here is cosmic dust – idealism inapprehensible to the eye but elemental to the soul.

Universe?
When you have the opportunity, gaze at dust drifting in a shaft of light. Follow the non-existent motes careening and corkscrewing through space. Imagine all this on a scale a million, a billion, a decillion times larger. The universe.

Queen?
God save the Queens!