THE FIRST BLOOM
The Philosophy: Growing Through
This necklace came from wanting to bring two parts of the Malheurs Des Hommes story together. Volume I, The Garden of Thorns, was about protection. Volume II, The Blooming Garden, was about what begins to grow beyond it. The First Bloom sits between those two worlds. The thorns are still there, but so are the flowers.
Growing Through is about the idea that growth does not always mean leaving everything behind. Sometimes we carry the difficult parts with us. They shape us, protect us, and become part of who we are. The point is not to erase them.It is to keep growing anyway. That is what this necklace represents: strength and softness existing at the same time, and beauty emerging without pretending the thorns were never there.