On Collecting:
An object, a life, and the time between
On Collecting 談論人與物之間的關係，以及這段關係如何開始、流動，並在時間之中逐漸成形。
有些物，會在說不清楚原因的情況下牽住目光，也許是輪廓、色彩、質地讓我們比平常多停留了一秒。而就在那一秒裡，人與物之間的關係，擁有了展開的可能性。
On Collecting explores the relationship between people and objects, and how that relationship begins, shifts, and gradually takes shape over time.
Some objects catch our attention for reasons we cannot quite explain. Perhaps it is their form, colour, or texture that makes our gaze linger for a moment longer. In that brief pause, the possibility of a relationship begins to unfold.
The Object:
Things we Met in Life
在每個人的生命中，視線曾落在成千上萬件物上，雙手也曾觸碰過大小不一的物。偶爾感到熟悉安心，偶爾被意料之外的相遇驚豔。
Over the course of a life, our eyes pass over countless objects, and our hands encounter things of every shape and scale. Some feel familiar, and others surprise us through the unexpectedness of the encounter.
一開始，我們透過身體理解一件物，看著它、輕捧著它、感受著它。可能是躺在手心上的重量，帶著微涼的溫度；也可能是在傾身靠近之後，才發現帶著光澤的表面，竟然藏著複雜的色彩。
At first, we come to know an object through the body: by looking, holding it gently, and sensing its presence. It may be the weight in the palm, carrying a slight coolness to the touch. Or only upon leaning closer does a lustrous surface reveal colours more intricate than they first appeared.
有些物，在下個瞬間就不再想起，但有些物，會讓我們想再靠近一點。希望它不只停在眼前，而能進入生活。
Some objects slip from memory almost at once. Others make us want to move closer. We begin to wish that they might remain with us, becoming part of the lives we shape around them.
說不清楚是輪廓、色彩，還是質地與光澤，讓目光比平常多停留了一秒。那一秒的停留像是一種微小的引力，讓物與人之間忽然有了連結。
Perhaps it is the shape, the colour, or simply the texture and sheen that makes the eye linger a second longer than usual. That brief pause feels like a quiet pull, and suddenly, a connection begins to form between person and object.
也許是它的色澤，與記憶裡曾珍藏的暮色重疊；也許是某種乾淨而純粹的質地，讓人想起曾經收下的一份祝福；又或是在它安靜的光裡，認出了某種如月色般沉靜的感受。眼前的物碰觸了心裡早已存在的一部分。當兩者彼此呼應，原本只是眾多物件之一的它，也開始顯得不同。
選擇是當我們在眾多可能之中，認出了與自己相近的一個，也留下了當下的痕跡：此刻我們注意什麼、珍惜什麼，又正被什麼吸引。
Perhaps its colour recalls a dusk once held dear; perhaps its clean, pure texture brings back the memory of a blessing once received; or perhaps, in its quiet glow, we recognise something of the stillness of moonlight. The object before us touches something already present within. When the two begin to resonate, what was once simply one object among many starts to feel distinct.
To choose is to recognise, among many possibilities, something that feels close to ourselves. In that choice, we also leave a trace of who we are in that moment: what we notice, what we cherish, and what we find ourselves drawn to.
Collect:
A Subtle Pull Toward One
My Object:
The Relation Between us
在人與物的關係中，「我的」像是一份承認或約定。那一刻起，我承認這件物與我有關，而關係也真正展開。
In the relationship between people and objects, calling something “mine” can feel like a kind of promise. From that moment on, we accept that this object has a place in our lives, and the relationship truly begins.
回想曾經珍愛過的物：女兒幼時親手捏成的陶瓷小碟、在異國市集一眼看中的水杯、記憶裡母親總在重要日子戴上的戒指，以及陪你走過第一段職涯、皮革已留下光澤的公事包。
Think of the things we have cherished: a small ceramic dish made by a daughter as a child; a cup spotted at a flea market in Europe; a ring a mother wore on important occasions; and a leather briefcase carried through the first years of a career.
它們成為「我的」理由並不相同，有些來自品味的契合、有些來自情感的投射，也有些是從另一個珍惜它的人手中，來到自己的生活。
The reasons they become ours are never quite the same. Some reflect a shared sense of taste, some hold the feelings we place in them, and some pass into our lives from the hands of someone who treasured them before us.
Beside, Behind
The Distance Made by Time
有些物，長時間陪伴在身邊。每天使用、反覆佩戴，近得幾乎不再特別注意它的存在。也有些物，會隨著生活改變而退到較遠的位置。它可能不再每天出現，也可能在某一天重新靠近。
Some objects remain close for years, worn and used so often that their presence becomes almost unnoticed. Others gradually move to a quieter place in life. They may no longer appear every day, only to come close again at another moment.
時間改變的，不只是如何看待一件物，也改變了彼此之間的距離，時而在側，時而在後；有些關係持續貼近生活，有些則安靜地留在背景之中。這些靠近與遠離，本身也成為關係的一部分。
Time changes not only how we see an object, but the distance between us. Sometimes beside us, sometimes behind us; some relationships stay close to daily life, while others settle softly into the background. These shifts in distance become part of the relationship itself.
Objects:
Coordinate in Life
物不需要離開生活，才成為座標。它可能此刻仍在身邊，也可能暫時退到遠處；重要的是，它曾經、或正在與我們的生命有所連結。
因此，當我們再次看向它，看見的不只是物本身，也可能看見自己曾經如何與它相遇、靠近，並共同經過一段時間。
An object does not need to leave our daily life to become a coordinate. It may still remain close, or it may have moved quietly into the distance. What matters is that, at some point, it entered into relation with a life.
And when we look at it again, we may see not only the object itself, but the way we once met it, lived with it, and moved through time together.
當一件物與我們共同經過時間，它便在生命裡留下了一個位置。
這個位置可能屬於一段正在發生的生活，也可能指向曾經投入的日子、一份關係、一個選擇，或某種屬於自己的感受。
When an object moves through time with us, it comes to hold a place in a life. That place may belong to something still unfolding, or it may point toward a period already lived — a relationship, a choice, or a feeling known only to the person who carries it.
一件珠寶的完成，不是意義的完成。
Maison Fawo 創造一件作品，讓它有機會在某個瞬間牽住一個人的目光，並由此進入另一個人的生命。也許最初，只是一秒的停留、一種說不清楚的呼應；而當它被選擇、被佩戴，意義開始在其中慢慢形成。至於它將如何被珍惜、理解，又在時間裡留下什麼位置，將由佩戴者、珠寶與共同經過的日子逐漸寫成。
也許有一天，它會成為某個人生命中的一個座標。
A piece of jewellery may be completed, but its meaning is not.
Maison Fawo creates each piece with the possibility that, in a certain moment, it may catch someone’s eye and enter their life. At first, it may be nothing more than a brief pause, an unspoken sense of recognition. Yet once it is chosen and worn, meaning begins to take shape. How it will be cherished and understood, and what place it may come to hold over time, is gradually written by the wearer, the jewellery, and the days they pass through together.
Perhaps one day, it will become a coordinate in someone’s life.