1001 Pieces

By Mick Michel

In the summer of 2025, I began a new creative ritual: 1001 Pieces, a visual journal. Each day in my studio, I create something, an art object or a piece of jewellery. This practice was born from a need to finally use the materials I’ve collected and learned to make as the techniques I’ve learned over the years.

I don’t know if it will take me 2 years, 8 months, and 28 days, the full span of 1001 days, or five years, or perhaps the rest of my life. I’m not old, but no longer young. What I do know is this: each day, I will work on a piece. 

1001 is an absurd yet beautiful number, large enough to require serious commitment, yet poetic enough to keep the project open-ended. Like 1001 Nights, it becomes a story told in fragments, night after night.

Each piece is a record of a day lived, a quiet fragment of a life in progress.

This project is both a structure and a rebellion. A structure that keeps me creating. A rebellion against overthinking, and against the pressure to brand, package, polish, and explain.