Alix Spooren
brooches
scrap wood, handmade recycled paper, ink,
varnish, sterling silver
2025
Alongside the scented trees, the work also includes a series of brooches —
small, wearable objects that emerge from the same material research. They
are made from leftover wood from the scented trees and photographs of the
forest, printed on handmade paper. Each brooch is the size of a passport photo,
a deliberate reference to identity: that of the artist, but also of humans in relation
to its environment. The brooches function as miniature portraits of the forest —
intimate memory objects that make our personal and collective connection to nature
tangible. They are both a memory and a statement: wearable fragments of
a disappearing world.