TOKENS

These handmade enamel tokens are both amulet and talisman: protective and empowering, encouraging you to unfold your innate potential.


Enamel
is an ornamental art that has been around for ages. Like the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, Celts, Georgians, Japanese, Chinese and Egyptians, I fuse powdered glass onto a substrate by firing at 800°C, allowing it to melt, flow and harden into an unpredictable composition. Enamelling is like alchemy: a transmutation of ‘gross' material into something more subtle, more divine. By knowledgable manipulation and integration of all elements ~ material, design and techniques - ether, air, fire, water and earth ~ a limitless field is opened up.

Copper
is my base metal; a great conductor of energy, with anti-bacterial and healing properties. Copper has been an essential material to man since pre-historic time; it was the first metal we used to create decorative artifacts and tools. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8700 B.C. It has an infinite recyclable life and has earned the status of the world’s most reusable resource. The copper I used for your talisman might have an interesting past life! Wearing copper jewelery is also an old folks remedy to reduce the pain associated with arthritis and other ills. It scrapes toxins, or 'ama', from the tissues according to Ayurveda, the ancient Indian art of living. This crystal metal doesn't hold a charge, but instead sends or conducts it on, it is a very useful power tool. In India, its use had significant spiritual relevance. Prayer Diagrams were carved onto Copper plates so that they could be conducted safely to the Spirit World. Copper talismans that are carried around for years by the same person can become quite powerful. Always carry around your lucky penny!*. Copper is related to our root, what makes these magical little objects both grounding and uplifting.

Other materials
provided by nature. Her healing power is always here. Befriended plants that protect and pacify: calamus (vacha, kalmoes), tulsi (holy basil, heilige basilicum), betony, several species of trees (ceder, birch, oak), clay, hemp, cotton and seeds. The crystals I use are caring as well; these most ancient expressions of life hold subtle knowledge, revealed once you align. The copper base of the token can smoothly transmit their energies to the holder, communicating knowledge from unseen realms to the conscious and subconscious mind.

Care
for your token and your body. Divide those two before bathing, showering, swimming, doing dishes, putting on lotion or makeup - and happily unite afterwards. But be careful: the enamel can chip or scratch when you drop the pendant on a hard surface. In other words: be mindful.

Give or receive
a sign. I create personalised tokens on commission, and in series ~ soon for sale at different locations in and around Amsterdam. Come see them, feel them!

All tokens are hand-made, two-sided, one-of-a-kind and genderless.