The year 2014, jewelry from the “Nature” collection selected for the Creativity Contest “The Posing Jewel” Oggetti Torino Italy. https://www.creativityoggetti.it
In 2016 five pieces of the “Nature” collection selected and included in the book: “Art Jewelry Today 4” by Sandra Korinchak and published by Schiffer PublishingLtd 72 International contemporary jewelry artists are included in that book..
For the “Nature” collection, I’m harvesting elements of nature to make wearable jewelry. Humble natural materials are incorporated in a manner where they pose their pure identity and a new aesthetic. The creative process is an experiment to negate the power of elite or expensive materials and to deny any rational value or social status of luxury.
Collecting leaves, pine or magnolia-cones, mushrooms, fibers, bark, human hair, tagua nuts, river rocks, ebony or other exotic woods are
incorporated in a manner where they pose their pure identity.