MELA by Mélanie Laplante
MELA, that's me.
I work with glass and metal in my workshop in the Laurentians.
I create jewellery to wear.
Objects for the home.
Pieces for the table.
Each creation begins with the desire to let light move freely.
Dans mon atelier des Laurentides, je crée des bijoux en verre et des objets pour la maison où la lumière circule.
Gathering
MELA comes from the first syllables of my name.
In Sanskrit, the word evokes the idea of gathering, bringing things together.
A subtle echo of the fusion and thermoforming techniques I use, but also of the meeting between glass and silver.
Two different materials.
Two presences.
Together, they create something stronger.
Brighter.
It is this tension, this balance, that I continue to explore.
A luminous signature
A perspective shaped by travel
I spent several years travelling.
Backpack on my shoulders, sailboat under my feet, between Europe, the Red Sea, the Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica and Peru.
These years led me to the artisanal work of jewelry making, then to a more personal, more grounded quest.
Diving, observing, learning to look differently, it is in this movement that my practice has been formed.
When I returned to live here, glass quickly became an obvious choice.
From the very first experiments, the material spoke.
Jewelry for yourself, for the home
All MELA pieces are handmade, one by one.
No mass production.
No exact repetition.
These are jewels for oneself and for the home.
Objects that punctuate a space the way punctuation shapes a sentence.
Glass as memory.
Objects as punctuation.
Light as a gentle presence.