"I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums… All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me… Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born."
- Jack London

Treasuring time is a project that has evolves into an abstract complex brief where the representation of a moment in time has been requested to be represented by our design.
A moment in time as an episode in our life was the way how I saw this project. The idea to represent physically a feeling was quite the challenge because all the ways I could think about evoking nostalgic feelings was through smells, music & flavors. To come to an end I decided to recall an abstract moment in our life, a point that has many meanings & understandings. Working on my design, I want to reproduce a shape that would represent this moment in life according to my belief & that other people will identify themselves with this object & its meaning.

I choose the moment in time that represents death & birth or possibly the relation that one depends on the other. The time in life that we know happened when we were born, the time that we know will come & for that particular time I follow the ideology that death means rebirth or in other words: reincarnation. Studying the ways how different cultures see the time of the end of our life I came along the understanding that religion is always aiming into a cycle or that particular answer that when we die we will reach a next level, a new state. This cycle of reincarnation doesn’t matter if it comes in karma, the Holy Spirit or just a change of a physical body is always that step in between the end (death) & the star (birth).

My design came along a elegant shape that evolved around a vase, I though of water as one of our main needs for life & slowly I sketched & re-sketched & finally hit the idea of a cycle that represented the growth of life, the evolution in our wisdom & the downfall of aging towards the end of our life & that moment that the end.

With a simple leaf shape I fount the elegance I was looking for a simple leaf cut that would fold into a double based vase.

At the stage of mock-ups I found the basic shaped structure that I wanted to pursue & balanced with elegance & a well based theory. After working my way through sketching & mock-up stage I had to make it real. Foam was a fir glance to achieve a final product but the weight property wasn’t even close to what I need. Wood was a long shot because of the complexity if the structure & a metal sheet seemed to sterile to represent something so meaningful.

At this stage I took a big risk & opted to work with gesso & a wire frame that offered me the best approach for my shape. I did the shape I was looking for but the falls of experimentation & limited time cost the elegance I wanted to achieve with the surface finish. The gesso worked but didn’t formed that smooth surface as I was trying to achieve & the color pick was indented to represent nature & its nurturing perfection.

As we see here the elegant shape holds the vase in a perfect three support points. The flat end works as the main base of the vase & it symbolizes the trance of death followed by the small but growing curled line of life.

The vase can hold two litters of water (or any given liquid) & suits open spaces with natural environments or backgrounds.