I am a jeweller
I am a storyteller
I am a shaman
Working with the resurgence of magic, in the witching hours of the 21st century, I am investigating my reality, forging the unreal from fragments of the real.
Last December, I won the RCA’s Onno Boekhoudt Travel award to take part in a shamanic training in Bali. It permitted me to merge my spiritual believes with my studio practice. My collection delves in my immersive trance experiences by embracing the animistic vision.
I aim to bring back magical thinking as a strategy to access an altered state of consciousness and enter an alternative reality. Today, I believe the question between fiction and reality is outdated: we live in a porous world where the fine line is disappearing (again). I am interested in this liminality ‘in between’ in materials, spaces, people…
Using jewellery and objects as shamanic language, I see my pieces as amulets empowering the wearer through their compelling symbolic and material qualities. They conduct a transformation.
My project encourages a contemplative and spiritual approach to our environment. The exhibition acts as an invitation to perceive the re-enchantment of our world.
A material exploration of a metaphysical dimension.
