Portachiavi con cuore / Heart Keychain

Oggi vorrei mostrarvi un portachiavi realizzato ispirandomi a una scultura di Nevenka Sabo (Nena), un’artista Serba che ama l’argilla polimerica e che realizza dei gioielli e delle sculture molto particolari e belle.
Io l’ho conosciuta tramite Flickr (Nena's Gallery) ma ha anche un blog nella sua lingua madre (Nena's Serbian Blog), un sito web (Nena's Web Site), un blog in lingua inglese (Nena's English Blog) e un Etsy Shop on line (Nena's Etsy Shop on line)…
La scultura di Nena che mi ha colpito molto è questa:


Altre foto della scultura sono disponibili qui: Flickr Album.

Appena ho visto questa scultura ho pensato… anche il mio cuore è così… dentro ci sono tante cose belle e altre meno… e all’esterno è un cuore vissuto… come un calzino usato… pieno di rammendi (alcuni venuti bene e altri meno)… e poi c’è un bottone… qualcuno avrà l’asola… mio marito ha l’asola giusta senz’altro per il mio bottone… E’ una scultura che mi ha fatto riflettere… e mi ha ispirato!
Il mio portachiavi non ha nulla a che vedere con la bellezza e la completezza dell’opera di Nena… pero’ trovo sia venuto bene lo stesso!


Vi allego, in fondo al post, anche un pezzettino della storia che Nena mi ha raccontato via mail quando le ho chiesto il permesso di pubblicare questo post (a proposito… grazie di cuore Nena!):

Heart Keychain [per Nena e i suoi lettori!]
Today I'm showing a keychain that I made inspired by Nevenka Sabo’s (Nena) sculpture, a Serbian artist who makes very special and beautiful polymer clay jewelry and sculptures.
I've met her through Flickr (Nena's Gallery) but she also has a blog in her native language (Nena's Serbian Blog), a website (Nena's Web Site) and an English blog too (Nena's English Blog).
Nena’s sculpture that impressed me so much is this:
(See above!)
As soon as I saw it, I thought ... but also my heart is so ... !!!
Inside it, there are many beautiful things and also many other things less fair…
And outside it is a heart with experience, with scars… like an old sock… it is full of seams (some of them have come good and others bad)… and then there is a button ... someone will has an heart with the relative buttonhole ... my husband has the right one for my button ... It's a sculpture that made me think ... and inspired me!
My keychain has nothing to do with the beauty and completeness of work of Nena ... However also my work is a good work…!
I’ve attach below a piece of ‘MY HEART’ sculpture background history that Nena shared with me via email when I asked her the permission to publish this post (Nena, by the way ... thank you so much!)

A piece of Nena’s mail
[…I have looked inside of my heart being brutally honest. It is a real blessing when you realize how truly happy you are, like it happened to me. I think that it is important that once in a while we reconnect with inner self and our hearts.
I kept scanning if there were some less pleasant stuff in my heart. Of course there were! Considering my age there was a certain patina, self-healing, knowledge and all kinds of solutions to keep the mask around my heart (that is the red coat around it) mended and in place. You see, that what is inside, all the colors, love, music, inspiration, growth and all that makes me, I show only to the chosen ones.
All the bad experiences, illnesses, arguments, losses and stuff I don't keep inside. I let them all go and the spot there went out I have marked with that blue button.
So this sculpture represents my heart and most of people think it's sad. I don't feel that way it gives a great deal of joy to me. …]

You can try to read it on Nena’s blog although it is written in Serbian language: original Nena’s blog post.

Aggiornamento:
Nena ha parlato di me... nel suo blog... con Google Translator si potrebbe tradurre il tutto dal Serbo all'Italiano... non è proprio perfetta la traduzione... ma almeno qualcosa si capisce...
Ecco il link:
Link al nuovo post di Nena.