A gesture that holds – mother’s day.
Where body, memory, and emotion intertwine, form begins to take shape.
This mother’s day, we return to a gesture – something repeated, often subconsciously. A way of holding, of keeping things together without force. This gesture inspired the making of our Maman’s Hairpin.
Inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois, whose works traced the complexity of emotion through form, the hairpin draws from one of her works, The Couple – two forms suspended in closeness. In her work, love and closeness were often referred to as something fragile, layered, and complex.
Here, that meaning shifts.
At the head of the hairpin, the structure gathers into a knot. Not symmetrical, not resolved, but held in tension. It recalls two figures in quiet proximity – protected, contained. There is no separation, but there is space. A bond that does not collapse into one, but remains in relation.
Throughout the month of May, this hairpin accompanies orders over $1000 as part of our mother’s day offering. Not as a subject to define the moment, but as something to remain after.
A way of holding, that stays.