My pieces reflect my attraction to an esthetic rooted in nature. The shapes I use in my work allow me to look into concepts I explore in my jewelry, like austerity, repetition and symmetry.
I’m trained as a journalist and after moving to the United States I worked as a correspondent for a Chilean daily for several years before deciding to work full time as a jeweler. My experience as a writer, however, still informs my approach to jewelry as a language that needs no words. Much more than adornment, it serves as a diary that documents meaningful events happening in my life and around me, an obsession with a shape, a material or a color that lingers.
Jewelry always carries a message and making jewelry mirrors writing a fictional story. Instead of words, I use metals, stones –materials- to write mine.
I remember sitting in the grass as a kid, digging in the dirt and looking for insects, marveling at the tiny details I’d find in them: an eye, an antenna, a set of miniature fuzzy legs. Making jewelry, exploring further into my fiction, often feels like a repetition of that childhood game: intense, lonely and gratifying.
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