06/05/2026
WEIGHS AND MEANS
Professional Jewelry Design Certificate Graduation Show
Lucía Rodríguez Maestro
Emma Cooley
Cindy Cornelsen
Connor Lewis
Opening May 9th, 4-7PM
LdM Gallery, Via de’Pucci 4, Firenze
When holding an object in your hand, what do you notice first? Is it the temperature, or the texture? Is it the shape or the size? One of the first sensations our bodies recognize before we are conscious of anything else, is the weight. Pick up an object and our muscles reflexively adjust
in response. Our bodies then notice and acknowledge, this is heavy, or this is light, but respond f irst, engaging systems to incorporate this new weight into our sense of balance. Natural and often unconscious, dynamic weight adjustment is ever in process, with connection as the
result, and thus weight can also be interpreted as a form of relationship.
If you interact with the physical weight of an object, then it is facilitating a relationship with gravity. If you feel something in response to the emotional weight of an object, then it is guiding you to a relationship with meaning. If you notice the marks of an object’s history and the weight of its many different pasts, then it is sharing with you a relationship to time.
As makers and artisans, our process of relating to and understanding our work is unending. When we pause momentarily to share our process with others in the form of an object, we hope to evoke all of these relationships and more. May the many weights of our pieces connect deeply with the many weights you carry yourself and may you f ind a new relationship in the space between.
