Rodin’s Other Kiss

Custom-made his and hers sterling silver earrings and cuff links.

Year: 2012

Team: Anca Matyiku

Custom sterling silver earrings and cufflinks that interlock together in a wenge and silk housing.  Based on Rodin’s “other kiss” sculpture, “L’Éternelle Idole.” Wedding present for a couple who were engaged around memories of Rodin.

“Still more marvelous is that other kiss “L’Éternelle Idole.” The material texture of this creation encloses a living impulse as a wall encloses a garden. {…} One does not dare to give it one meaning, it has thousands.  Thoughts glide over it like shadows, new meanings arise like riddles and unfold into clear significance.  Something of the mood of a Purgatorio lives within this work.  A heaven is near that has not yet been reached, a hell is near that has not yet been forgotten.” - R.M.Rilke