• I am more by being all you can hold within the circumference of your arms.

    BROWSE ALL JEWELLERY

H A L L O

And welcome to the same matter online shop! Here you can find a small collection of jewellery objects handmade by artist/maker Julika Hartz. All pieces are handcrafted in her little studio in Hamburg (Germany) and send out with the greatest care. If you are on the lookout for something nice and shiny, that is also unique and individually created - this is the place for you!

'bent' threads

'bent' arches

'bent' bows

THE BENT SERIES

The 'bent' series is inspired by the recognition and celebration of change and the beauty of words spoken, decisions made and actions taken - despite of (and even more so in) the knowledge of their irreversibility. 

All pieces of the 'bent' series are made of 2mm silver wire that was bent one way and then - in the attempt to bend it back to its original state - bent another way. The marks of change (the bends) have deliberately not been recitfied and instead worked into an object. Just as these irregularities make the object what it is, it is the absoluteness and irreversibility of change that shape our experience and, this way, our interactions with ourselves, as well as with the other.

The 'bent' series is a visualisation of the attempt to break with the impulse to run from change, but to welcome and integrate it into our way of being and living. It is reinforcing the beauty brought about by an object (or a mind) being bend forward and backward into the form it was supposed to end up taking.

the bent series

'BENT' HOOPS

The 'bent' hoop earrings are the collection's favourites. They've been bent back and forth into their individual shape, while keeping their simplistic look for everyday wear.

SHOP HOOPS

'FREE FORM' CIRCLES

The 'free form' circle earrings are another same matter favourite. Inspired by the free workings of the hands, they celebrate the comfort of a body having found its own form.

SHOP CIRCLES

and from this world I set out to find you | to re-find you | in the places foreign to my critical eye and my skeptical tongue and my infatuated mind | and at the edge of it (which is also the center of something else) | i will find you | in the places you have always inhabited | where belief is key | where trust is all.

GIFT CARD

Here's the same matter gift card, so your favourites can chose their favourites!

SHOP GIFT CARDS

ABOUT

same matter is a small label founded by artist/maker Julika Hartz. Her work stems from the prevalence of blues and greys, gushes of wind, constant movement and of light reflecting on water...

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