I do not start with a completed concept or drawing but rather I begin with a feeling or sensation.
The natural materials help me to conceive a strong contrast and allow me to explore composition.
I am a collector, a designer and an architect who are in love with nature, sculpture, poetry and try to merge these three in a living thread, in a path towards your soul.
Collecting natural forms and incorporating them into my work reaffirms truths that begin with the self, but are at once universal. A certain intimacy is established by both acts – the collecting and the making.
I have been involved, with great pleasure, in ten editions of AUTOR International Contemporary Jewelry Fair (2011 -2023).
Some of the most important international events I have participated in are:
Germany (2017 – Munich Jewellery Week – Utopic Spaces – with Titi Berrio), Colombia (2015- DE LA MANO – Muestra De Joyeria Contemporanea – Galeria Naranjo&Velilla, Medellin), United States of America ("ROOTS" Earrings Collection – Design for Dorin Negrau, Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week – Fall 2015).”
REBIRTH COLLECTION
This collection, composed of pieces made from brass and wood charred by hand, is inspired by an ancient Japanese technique. There, flames preserve, sealing wood against time.
The philosophy behind Shou Sugi Ban ( The Timeless Art of Charred Wood) aligns with the Japanese aesthetic principle of wabi-sabi, which finds beauty in imperfection and transience. It values simplicity, asymmetry, and the natural processes of growth and decay. In the context of Shou Sugi Ban, this philosophy manifests through the charred wood’s unique textures and variations, highlighting the material’s raw and unrefined beauty.
I burn my small sculptures, my jewelry, not to destroy, but to shield them. The fire doesn’t consume, it transforms.
The use of charred wood evokes a intimate transformation, a process profound, a meeting of fire and wood, energy and matter.
I think the wood as a time machine; a storyteller of life, a fossil who preserved the memories of ours ancestors.
Working primarily with locally sourced wood and with driftwood- altered through carving, bending and charring -my work reflects our moments of connection and dis-connection with nature.
The essence of burning is transmutation. We burn away the past in the present moment allowing the future to emerge in a new moment of potential manifestation. We must only allow the past to burn without the need to hold on to something that no longer is. A tree never mourns the transmutation of its former carcass—instead, it welcomes the arrival of a new energetic state that liberates it from the shackles of having to remain rooted in the earth.
Trees teach us being-ness firstly and then, when the time comes, release from the constrictions of its earthly journey.
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