Woven Self

Description

In my work, personal breakage becomes a source of strength, beauty, and transformation. Inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow and the journey of self-individuation, I turn toward the hidden, wounded, and often rejected parts of the self. My pieces become a medium for this inward journey. Fractured stones and strands of woven hair serve as metaphors for resilience, memory, and healing. Hair, though delicate, is incredibly strong — a symbol of the paradox between vulnerability and strength. Woven through broken materials, it becomes a thread of continuity, like DNA, binding stories, traumas, and identities together. Each knot and connection tells a story, not just of mending but of becoming. My jewelry speaks to moments of fragility and quiet transformation, inviting the wearer to see brokenness not as an end but as a beginning. In putting ourselves back together, we do not return to what we were. We carry the beauty of the fracture, and we become something entirely new.