Gran Sans / Season 4 (2023)
Gran Sans was a jewelry project that began in the winter of 2017, inspired by my grandmother, Sandra Olivia Moon Hightower and the methods of making that she has passed down and imparted upon me. The project released four “seasons” over the course of six years — Season 4 being the culminating line.
Each season was inspired by a narrative or aspect of-the-life-of the project’s namesake — Season 4 being inspired by an image of my grandmother from 1954 on the boardwalk in Atlantic city. Material choices were drawn from her personal retelling of that specific day in which the photograph was taken.
Gran Sans was distrubuted primarily online via the former gransans.com, and was sold at various stockist in Brooklyn and Canada.
An archive of previous seasons can be found here.
Photography by Dougal Henken.
Models: Husna Abubakar, Melaine Ferdinand-King, Jahi Kijo Lendor and Njari Anderson.
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