Notes from Bjørg · Oct 15, 2026

The Hand

Gold-coloured anatomical heart pendant on a chain resting in a blue-painted open palm against a pale background

I keep returning to the hand. The lines of a palm, its folds and small marks. An object resting there is never quite separate from the person holding it.

We shot this campaign in Paris in 2008. We’d found this white Chanel glove at a flea market that morning. A few hours later, it was holding the heart.

Gold-coloured anatomical heart pendant and chain resting on a white Chanel glove in Bjørg’s 2008 Paris campaign

The hand became a recurring motif in rings and pendants. Later, we cast and sculpted hands at life size in plaster, bronze and transparent resin.

White and translucent hand casts with open palms arranged together on a pale surface

A hand is familiar until you separate it from the body, or change its scale.

Gold-coloured hand cast beside a real hand on a pale surface

Gold-coloured ring with two small sculpted hands holding a rectangular pink stone, worn on a finger beside white fabric Silver-coloured hand pendant holding a red stone on a ball chain The first versions of these two were made in 2009 .

In the ring, the hand that holds the stone is carried by another hand. I like this doubling.

The body wearing a small fragment of itself.

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