More than Jewelry, More than Beauty
Let’s start by attempting to describe what jewelers usually do:
- “Traditional” jewelers are usually focused on creating something beautiful, and usually aim either to adorn a woman with beauty that matches her looks or to showcase a stone in some sculptural design. Sometimes, there can be a story behind a piece and there are often ‘good ideas’ but most of the time there isn’t much more than this.
- Jewelers who make ‘spiritual jewelry’ are usually piecing together elements (often they are stones, and their ‘power’is read about in books) that are said to hold some specific ‘healing’ energy into a wearable ornament.
Unlike them, I am neither focused on outer aesthetics , nor on using “pre-packaged” ‘healing’ energy but instead I am focused on the deepest truth and realness of my pieces, in other words their alive spirit. Not surprisingly, you will see that this single-minded focus on the inner qualities of my pieces actually makes them quite beautiful, but they are so in a spontaneous way, in a true way… with perfections and imperfections undistinguished from each other, like nature left wild and also like a real woman who, when she truly owns herself, looks beautiful even if she has some physical flaws.
Where Does the Spirit Come From?
As a Spirit Jeweler, I LIVE everything of what my pieces say. In fact, when I work on any piece, I ONLY speak of what I have most recently experienced in my personal journey of constantly reclaiming deeper aspects of myself.
Each piece is thus filled with a ‘just-reclaimed’ aspect of my personal spirit to touch a part of your personal spirit, one which is in search of movement. This is how your spirit can be instantly drawn to a specific piece, either through the design or through the sentence accompanying it, or both.
So my jewelry intensely represents what I stand for:
- Truth
- Integrity
- Deep inner-transformation
- Constant search for an even deeper truth
- Nakedness of the soul
- Self-discovery
- The Spirit of the Individual
As I design and fabricate every piece,
it very specifically speaks about the inner-work going on inside me:
- The sweetness of a specific recovery
- The ecstasy of a new insight
- The struggle of digging deeper into my darkness
- The deep work and the joyful play
- The tears but also the great laughter (it takes both!) of a woman constantly focused on reclaiming ALL of her spirit
- AND the determination to make that same reclaiming easier for others in the process…through as many means as possible.
Each piece therefore carries with it the relentless focus and definite excitement of my current travels back in my inner human journey, hacking a way through my wounded psyche to recover my true self. In so doing each piece holds that movement and integrated change and stands in the REAL power to jump-start and support you to do the same.
This, to me, is the work of a Spirit Jeweler.