San Sebastián, Spain
Play is her personal and whimsical path to uncovering new ideas. Shapes and volumes come to life through experimentation which is a key aspect in her process of creation and often leads to beautiful discoveries. There is not much premeditation. She sometimes just follows her instinct or whatever thoughts come to mind. She flows in that creative mindset. Thus, she doesn’t usually approach her work as a jeweler but more as an artist. There´s not always a need for sketches or drawings, no urge to tell stories or find underlying messages, it is more about shaping emotions and capturing the raw beauty of the elements she uses and the starting point is always that fruitful and stimulating creative chaos of materials, colors, found objects surrounding her. She gets inspiration from the everyday life, from decaying walls, peeling paint, casual splashes of color, from the context she lives in. A quest for beauty, balance, textures, patterns, colors and emotions.
“Faceted. We all have cracks” collection
The “ Faceted. We all have cracks” collection is inspired in the fact that sometimes we feel like rocks, stable, strong, composed. But every rock, no matter how seemingly solid, has its own tiny cracks within. And if we don’t allow ourselves to feel weak, touched and seek for support when we need it, those tiny cracks can expand under the emotional pressure to become larger and larger until we crumble. It’s time then to put ourselves together and start all over again….