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Freestyle Atomics

Take a look at the collection Een juweel van een paneelDe morgen - 2005

In 2007, as part of an artistic project, I was offered an original panel from the Atomium (the iconic Expo ’58 building in Brussels) which was at the time being restaurated.

I fell in love with this material, loaded with history, and bought some more panels.

Ever since I have recycled and recuperated this unique aluminum for my Freestyle Atomics. The Atomium is the magnification of the scientific model of a cubic-centered iron crystal atom. This led to the choice to solely use natural cubic gemstone crystals (cubes, octahedrons, rhombic dodecahedron etc), preferably still sitting on the matrix rock in which they are found.

In the most recent brooches I use necessary and needless air vents and sprues to create a new kind of ornamentation.