06/02/2023
AW23' COPENHAGEN OBSIDIAN SOCIETY (13)* RUNWAY SHOW
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“Since I was a kid, I’ve been collecting stones.
It started as a modest hobby inherited from my sweet grandma.
When beginning, it mainly had a focus around a visual attention, simply to find beautiful and unique shape and colours.
Years later, as my stone collection grew, so did my approach and purpose to why I’m still collecting stones to this day as a grown man. Because the shapes and colours have slowly become secondary. What matters and drags my motivation for picking up a stone today, is the energy of the moment that lies ahead before the stone collecting. Whether if it’s a beautiful sunset with a strong emotional connection, or an inspiring conversation with a stranger ending in a sentence to remember, or if it’s simply just a specific spontaneous feeling of joy, freedom or gratitude - then they all represent emotional energy which I’ll like to bring with me into the ongoing walk through life’s vast ups and downs.
In that way, stones to me, have become comforting memorial tokens filled with energies from specific valuable moments in my life.
And in this way I carry on my past and emotional milestone moments, and keep them well represented in my every day mindset - as I carefully have them arranged in every room privately as well as in my professional environment.
The story of the AW23’ COPENHAGEN OBSIDIAN SOCIETY collection, is therefore an homage to the intricate correlation between modern human beings and our surrounding nature. An exploration of finding meaning, belief and substance through the knowledge of nature and it’s power of giving.”
Tobias Birk Nielsen, 2023
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