In Japan, there is a small pick-knife called a kashikiri, used exclusively for eating traditional Japanese sweets in the context of tea ceremony.

I have reimagined this utensil as a piece of jewelry, crafted in silver and gemstones.

The pick is designed so that the fingers can only be placed in a specific position, allowing only one way of holding it. When held, the hand naturally forms a refined gesture—one that delicately expresses care and respect toward fragile things.

This fixation of gesture is influenced by the tea ceremony, where every movement is embedded with a sense of dialogue with others and with the object itself.

If the hand becomes beautiful through holding this pick-knife, then the pick-knife itself is jewelry.

Project year: 2005

Material: silver, semi precious stones

Photograph: Rachel de Joode

Presented:
in the group exhibition "Metal Craft Artists"
2005
at Gallery You-you-an Harajuku, Tokyo Japan