Oct
2023
SONNET I LEGACY

SONNET I LEGACY

SAUVEREIGN’s SONNET I Legacy features the penmanship of the maison’s artist and founder Bertrand Mak, reciting one of William Shakespeare’s most celebrated love poems, “Sonnet 116.” Made in solid 18-carat yellow gold, the Gem is casted, scrupulously hand-carved, and polished by a prestigious goldsmith in Geneva, Switzerland. Interweaving, imbricating, protruding, and removed, the depicted text appears as if seared into or levitating from the surface. Comprising engravings of six varied depths and skeletonised, SONNET I is reminiscent of a personal diary – within it, immortalising an affection that bears the weight of time.

From Ink to Gold

Transcribed using various fountain pens with different nibs, the pattern recalls the artist’s early experience of writing lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth – a form of disciplinary action traditional to Mak’s alma mater. Hidden within the composition are also illustrations by Mak, similar to those carved into love locks. Borrowing gravity from the playwright’s poetry, the overflowing reiteration within SONNET I evokes a yearning for the constancy of love, tender and intense. Finding his voice through a change in literature, Mak transforms penance into longing and repentance into reaffirmation.

Original manuscript by Bertrand Mak
Original manuscript by Bertrand Mak

ELVA NI

DARE TO FALL

   Location credit: Galerie Ora-Ora

CHRISSIE CHAU

MASTERS OF OUR FATE

JESSICA HSUAN

STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF

Location credit: Touch Ceramics

CECILIA YEUNG

NEVER GIVE UP

FIONA SIT

BELIEVE IN LOVE

  Location credit: Galerie du Monde Artworks by: Wang Gongyi

ASHLEY LAM

HOLD ON TO FAIRY TALES

   Location credit: Mount Zero Books