Origin.

In 2014, I was making large-scale glacier sculptures for an exhibition: Your Engagement has Consequences, in The Hague. The process began by taking a finger print detailed mould from the surface of one of the most iconic glaciers in the world - the Mer de Glace in the French Alps. At the time, taking a mould directly from a glacier couldn't be done. The conditions were too harsh, the material too unpredictable. However I managed to developed my own material to achieve this. No heat is emitted, there’s no shrinkage and no damage is caused to the glacier ensuring I leave with zero trace.

On opening night, one of the sculptures fell from the wall and shattered. I crouched down and picked up a fragment. Every detail of the glacier's surface was there, but this time in my hand and not on a wall. Intimate. Ancient but fragile. A totem of something far greater than itself. This became The Original Glacier Necklace - the actual shard of glacier from one of the wall hanging sculptures.

That broken glacier sculpture became the beginning of an idea. Garogosi Studio grew from that moment. The work exists to keep our connection to the mountains close to us all day long, alive, to help better understand ourselves and our landscape.