12/08/2026
“След”
The work was created for the “Whisper of an Angel” exhibition at Частная Коллекция, Moscow, Russia.
Whisper of an Angel
The work started not with an idea, but with a trace…
I noticed a small natural mark in a piece of rose quartz. At first, it looked like a random imperfection. But the longer I looked at it, the more I could see the shape of feathers around it.
It felt as if a wing had touched the stone and then disappeared, leaving only a trace behind. That changed everything!
Until then, I had only worked with metal as a jeweller. But the open call requirements brought me to a stone-carving workshop in Saint-Petersburg, where I learned to work with stone for the very first time.
I felt like I had found a new way to express myself — a new language my inner artist could speak.
Then a nail appeared in the stone. At first, it was simply there to hold the piece in place. But it slowly became part of the work — a reminder of the moment of impact.
When the work was done, I still didn’t feel it was truly finished. So I took a mould of the stone, made it in wax and cast it in silver.
That’s when the trace became jewellery — a mono earring and a ring.
Inside the silver wings, a fine metal mesh holds a small piece of the stone, like a fishing net. It doesn’t hide the broken part. It keeps it in place.
For me, the stone fragment is like an experience we carry with us. It may no longer be a wound, but it remains part of our story.
This is what the whole series is about:
-A trace becomes metal.
-A fragment becomes jewellery.
-A moment becomes a memory.
-And something that first looks like an obstacle can become the beginning of something new.
For me, Whisper of an Angel is not really about an angel.
It is about the small things that quietly change us — intuition, care, encounters, choices and memories.
Perhaps an angel doesn’t always leave a wing behind.
Sometimes, it leaves only a trace.
And perhaps that is enough.