NEW YORK—Once upon a time there was a golden haired maiden who had a gift for making gold into things that people never did see before. She was many things before she found her true calling. Her name is Lucie Heskett-Brem.
Not many of us see our lives in terms of a fairy tale. But then, meeting someone who is so aligned to her destiny that her creativity reverberates across continents is very reassuring for the rest of us who might doubt the existence of a divine plan for each and everyone of us.
“I never liked to have my hands still. At school they were trying to teach me to be still, and now it’s my job,” said jeweler-artist Lucie Heskett-Brem with a beaming and rather triumphant smile while she continuously softened the golden serpent chain in her hands. “I’m training it to be alive, like a real snake,” she explained.
We sat at the back of the Aaron Faber gallery in New York where Heskett-Brem is showing a collection of her pieces. She has been called “The Gold Weaver of Lucerne” (where she lives in the Swiss Alps) because of the way she crafts her work as well as the qualities with which she imbues them.
In the window display of the gallery hangs a giant spider-web that is as close to the texture of real spider-web as metal is ever going to get. She is surrounded by her 3-D pieces—wearable sculptures that look like sculptural mandalas.
