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 multiple finger print detailed moulds 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. No heat is emitted, no shrinkage and no damage is caused to the glacier. The moulds capture a preserve forever a finger print detail of poised ice, a fragile moment in the life of the glacier.

The moulds worked and took these moulds to The Hague and cast them in pure pigment and geological material. The sculptures were ready for the exhibition. However just before the doors opened for the first night, one of the sculptures fell from the wall and shattered. Disaster. I crouched down and picked up a fragment and I noticed 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 pivot into wearable sculpture and the Original Glacier Necklace was born.

That broken glacier sculpture became the beginning of a new direction. Garogosi Studio grew from that moment and the work exists to keep our connection to the mountains close to us, alive and to help better understand ourselves and the landscape we love and care for.

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