Teresa Milheiro
Jeweller
Published: 12.12.2017
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Brooch: Mutations, 2017
Dyed bone, dyed coral, glass, steel, copper
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
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Necklace: Mutations, 2017
Dyed bone, glass, oxidized silver
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
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Brooch: Mutations, 2017
Dyed bone, dyed coral, glass, steel, copper
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
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Necklace: Mutations, 2017
Dyed bone, glass, iron, synthetic
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
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Necklace: Mutations, 2017
Dyed bone, glass, iron, synthetic
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Pendant: Untitled, 2017
Skull with electroforming, copper, iron, nylon
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
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Pendant: Untitled, 2017
Vertebra with electroforming and rubber
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Necklace: Untitled, 2017
Bone with electroforming, copper, leather, praise quartz and amethyst
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Installation: Way through another side, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver, brass, shibuichi, copper, alpaca
Part of: Exhibition at Money Museum
Project with 13 puppets
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Installation: Way through another side, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver, brass, shibuichi, copper, alpaca
Part of: Exhibition at Money Museum
Project with 13 puppets
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Installation: Way through another side, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver, brass, shibuichi, copper, alpaca
Part of: Exhibition at Money Museum
Project with 13 puppets
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Installation: Way through another side, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver, brass, shibuichi, copper, alpaca
Part of: Exhibition at Money Museum
Exhibition Text
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Object: Devil/Angel, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver
From series: Way through another side
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Object: Devil/Angel, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver
From series: Way through another side
Detail view
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Object: Devil/Angel, 2004 - 2008
Gold, silver
From series: Way through another side
Installation view
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Object: The gossipmonger and the octopus, 2004 - 2005
Gold, brass, copper, alpaca
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The gossipmonger and the octopus, 2004 - 2005
Gold, brass, copper, alpaca
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The gossipmonger and the octopus, 2004 - 2005
Gold, brass, copper, alpaca
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The dumb and the Mosquito, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The dumb and the Mosquito, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
Detail view
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Object: The dumb and the Mosquito, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The tycoon and the Porcupine fish, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The tycoon and the Porcupine fish, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The tycoon and the Porcupine fish, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The Pope and opisthoproctus, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The Pope and opisthoproctus, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
Exhibition view
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Object: The emperor and the melanocetus, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: The emperor and the melanocetus, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
Exhibition view
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Object: Baby, 2004 - 2008
Silver, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: Baby, 2004 - 2008
Silver, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: Baby, 2004 - 2008
Silver, shibuichi, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Object: Palestinian, 2004 - 2008
Silver, brass, copper
From series: Way through another side
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Earrings: Untitled, 2016
Silver, insect wings
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Insectarium
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Ring: Untitled, 2016
Silver, insect wings
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Insectarium
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Ring: Untitled, 2016
Silver, porcelain teeth, vanadinite, steel
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Lost
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Necklace: Untitled, 2010
Silver, teeth
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Lost
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Necklace: Untitled, 2008
Copper, oxidized silver, and lion tooth
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Lost
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Necklace: Untitled, 2016
Copper, oxidized silver, and fossilized tooth
6 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Lost
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Object: Beetle skull II, 2016
Bronze and brass
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Insectarium
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Necklace: Sweet Memories, 2016
Oxidized silver
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Insectarium, 2016
Oxidized silver and amethysts
6.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
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Necklace: Insectarium, 2016
Oxidized silver, bluestone
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Fishskull, 2015
Oxidized silver, resin, and skull
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Earrings: Pigs Triumph, 2015
Silver
2 x 2.3 cm
From series: Pigs Triumph
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Photograph: Pigs Triumph, 2015
Mixed media
40 x 9.6 cm
Photo by: Patricia Almeida
From series: Pigs Triumph
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Necklace: Beetle skull, 2014
Oxidized silver and gold leaf
6.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Insectarium
Side view
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Necklace: Beetle skull, 2014
Oxidized silver and gold leaf
6.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: Insectarium
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Bracelet: Ripper, 2011
Oxidized silver and shark teeth
9.6 x 8 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Object: Big Sucker, 2010
Resin with pigment, silicone, and gold plated silver
29 x 50 x 4 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Object: Big Sucker, 2010
Resin with pigment, silicone, and gold plated silver
29 x 50 x 4 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment and oxidized silver
5.5 x 5.5 x 1.7 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment and oxidized silver
6 x 5 x 1.7 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment and oxidized silver
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment and oxidized silver
6 x 6 x 1.2 cm
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment, silicone, and silver
6.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Traffic, 2009
Resin with pigment, silicone, and silver
6.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Necklace: Anti-existence device, 2009
Plastic, silver
12 x 11 x 7 cm
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
From series: Alienation
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Object: The killing jewel, 2009
Glass syringe, steel, brass, gold leaf.
25 x 3 cm
Photo by: Teresa Milheiro
From series: Alienation
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Object: Skullbeetle, 2008
Cat skull, gold leaf
10 x 7 x 4.5 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Object: Tiradentes II, 2008
Wood, iron, teeth, silver, velvet.
16.5 x 8 x 8 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Object: Tiradentes II, 2008
Wood, iron, teeth, silver, velvet.
16.5 x 8 x 8 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
Detail view
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Object: Tiradentes I, 2008
Wood, plastic, gold, teeth, velvet.
17.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm
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Necklace: Desperately looking for a wrinkle, 2006
Oxidized cooper , articulated metal tube, magnifying lent, motorbike mirrors, syringe, lead.
35 x 37 x 35 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: We live in a perfect world
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Necklace: Big brother is watching you, 2006
Silver, tissue, reused glass doll eyes.
6.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, Tissue 6.6 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: We live in a perfect world
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Object: Survival Kit, 2005
Silver, catheter, silicone.
143 x 9.5 x 3 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: We live in a perfect world
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Necklace: Be botox be fucking beautiful, 2005
Oxidized silver, reused glass syringe, wood.
10 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Chain 69 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: We live in a perfect world
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Necklace: Be botox be fucking beautiful, 2005
Oxidized silver, reused glass syringe, wood.
10 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Chain 69 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
From series: We live in a perfect world
On model
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Necklace: You lie with all your teeth, 2004
Silver, teeth, steel.
Width 14,5 cm, Depth 15 cm, depth 15 cm
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Necklace: The aunt’s cow wears braces, 2004
Oxidized silver, animal teeth, brackets.
21 x 20 x 1 cm
Photo by: Luis Pais
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Plate: Sensitive plates from the state of the planet, 2004
Aluminium
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Plate: Sensitive plates from the state of the planet, 2004
Aluminium
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Plate: Sensitive plates from the state of the planet, 2004
Aluminium
Plates in collection folder
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Piece: Flintstones, 2002
Bone, oxidised silver
From series: Self-defense
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Bracelet: Prosthesis, 2002
Bones, silver
2.5 x 9 x 6.5 cm
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Bracelet: Escamarão articulado, 1995
Brass and forged copper with patine
16 x 10 x 7 cm
From series: Objectóias
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Bracelet: Escamarão articulado, 1995
Brass and forged copper with patine
16 x 10 x 7 cm
From series: Objectóias
On model
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Bracelet: Escamarão, 1995
Oxidized brass and aventurine
11.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm
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Object: Animalóide, 1995
Brass with patine
13 x 16 x 3 cm
From series: Objectais
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Hand Piece: Braceleiro, 1995
Brass with patine
11 x 7 x 12 cm
From series: Objectóias
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Hand Piece: Giant Ant, 1994
Brass and oxidized forged copper
24 x 12 x 5 cm
From series: Objectais
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Hand Piece: Giant Ant, 1994
Brass and oxidized forged copper
24 x 12 x 5 cm
From series: Objectais
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Head Piece: Torture Elmet, 1990/91
Oxidized and forged copper and silver leaf
36 x 34 x 16 cm
From series: Torture jewels
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Head Piece: Torture Elmet, 1990/91
Oxidized and forged copper and silver leaf
36 x 34 x 16 cm
From series: Torture jewels
On model
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Body piece: Torture Vest, 1991
Oxidized and forged copper and silver leaf
48 x 33 x 22 cm
From series: Torture jewels
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Body piece: Torture Vest, 1991
Oxidized and forged copper and silver leaf
48 x 33 x 22 cm
From series: Torture jewels
On model
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Object: ” Furaolhos” Pierces Eyes, 1990
Chromed plated brass and headphones
21 x 12.5 x 4 cm
From series: Torture jewels
On model
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Object: ” Furaolhos” Pierces Eyes, 1990
Chromed plated brass and headphones
21 x 12.5 x 4 cm
From series: Torture jewels
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Piece: Detterent stalls, 1990
Chromed plated brass
Finger Stall
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Piece: Auto- suggestive finger stall, 1990
Latex and ivory
Finger Stall
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Bracelet: Articulated fist (Lâminas), 1990/91
Oxidized copper
29 x 8 x 6 cm
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Hand Piece: Self defense fist, 1989/90
Brass with patine
21 x 25 x 4.5
From series: Self defense
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Hand Piece: Self defense fist, 1989/90
Brass with patine
21 x 25 x 4.5
From series: Self defense
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Ring: Passaróvno, 1988
Brass and pumice stone
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Bracelet: Self defense bracelet, 1988
Copper with patine
9.5 x 8.9 cm
From series: Self defense
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Bracelet: Self defense bracelet, 1988
Anodized aluminium
7 x 17 cm
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I was born in Lisbon. I first came into contact with metals when I was very young, in the António Arroio secondary school in 1984. The school specializes in applied arts, and it changed my life. Later, between 1987 and 1991, I studied jewelry in Ar.Co, an independent art school in Lisbon, and found my personal way of expression. I founded the ZDB gallery, the first alternative gallery in Lisbon, in 1995. I worked for 10 years for a company making jewelry collections for museum shops. In 2004, I received a subsidy from the fine arts department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for my project with puppets entitled “Passage to the Other Side”. Between 2007 and 2012, I owned and managed Gallery ARTICULA, making and selling jewelry and objects. Now I have a new atelier in a truly central location in Lisbon, Largo de Camões. Now I’m teaching jewelry techniques in the school that I graduated from.
Statement
Teresa Milheiro’s PuppetsTeresa Milheiro, an internationally recognized and acclaimed artist belonging to a Third Generation of Contemporary Portuguese Jewelry, develops in her work a clearly conceptual approach which not only gives the jewel an unprecedented communicative significance but also expands it into unusual territories.
For Teresa Milheiro, a jewel is, as it always should be in a contemporary approach, a predominantly communicative vehicle, a privileged portrait of our time and of the world we live in, which the artist uses to develop her fascinating analytical comments on the daily reality that surrounds her/us.
In Teresa Milheiro’s jewels, we often find profound, at times finely ironic, reflections on Fashion or on Beauty, phenomena which today’s Media fuel exceedingly and which the jewel apparently supports, or, in a more profound dimension, wise reflections on the human condition itself, life or death.
Unleashing the jewel into new territories, Teresa Milheiro has already used sculpture in her work, creating sculpture-jewels that recall fantasy insects, and now she does it again with superior mastery.
Resorting to the totally universal masterpiece that makes up the trilogy of Autos das Barcas, which the immortal Gil Vicente bequeathed to us, Teresa Milheiro has transformed her jewels into fascinating puppets: Hell, Purgatory and Glory (or Heaven) are summoned here in a poignant portrayal of the Contemporary World and of our human and mortal condition.
The preciseness ofJewelery combines with a meticulous narrative that, starting with our first great dramatist, dissects the reality of our time.
Do you remember the Alcoviteira (Procuress) of Auto da Barca do Inferno who brought with her Seiscentos virgos postiços / Duas arcas de feitiços (Six hundred fake hymens / Two trunks full of spells)?
She seems innocent compared to today’s Procuress who, reviewed by Teresa Milheiro, summons human trafficking networks or the corresponding octopus mafia with hypnotisy eyes, crafted in symbolic gold.
The crushing power of multinationals, greed, insane materialism, the emptiness of values, the duality of Good versus Evil inherent in human beings, Innocence, the global economic system, alienation, clerical hypocrisy (perhaps more alive today than it was in Gil Vicente’s time), racial andcivilazational hate, are other possible interpretations of these puppets of adults who are perpetually evolving on the World Stage. / Rui Afonso Santos
My work is usually inspired by my surroundings. Society, social values, politics, economics, wars and environmental concerns have a direct influence on the ironic form with which I approach these themes and develop them in my pieces. I consider my work to be intervention, normally a very strong political and social comment.
I do not always use the same method of work, I often create pieces influenced by certain objects that I encounter, but in other works I may diverge from an idea or concept to arrive at the form of a piece.
I do not like feeling trapped in rigid ways of working because that interferes with my inspiration.
A jewel to me is something that is spiritually valuable. The material value of the jewel has little meaning.
Generally, when I'm creating a form I don’t worry about the target audience, I simply have an intrinsic need to express this idea.
Jewellery for me represents a form of expression like any other, but with the difference that we carry it with us. That makes interaction with other people more visible – in fact, it can sometimes demand a great deal of courage to wear some pieces.
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