Autor 2024

Well… after several good years in which both I and Icrushenko hung up our jewelry-making tools… this year I returned among the authors. Of contemporary jewelry, of course.

I found an Author a bit different than I remembered it from 5 years ago when I last participated. More cosmopolitan than it already was. More mature. More confident in its own strengths. More… how can I put it clearly: more like a beautiful woman, 40+, who already knows all her qualities and in the meantime has also learned to turn her weaknesses into assets.

However, it has retained its exclusive air and openness to modes of expression that are as different as they are captivating. Instinctively, an OCD-ist like me has a pang of heartache at the thought of putting together such different artistic concepts and languages. But, as I said above, it is exactly a potential weakness transformed into an asset. We are so different that the juxtaposition generates a unitary vibe.

A different kind of community, with different kinds of people, who make different kinds of jewelry, for a different kind of audience.

You somehow feel, both as a designer and as a visitor, I think, part of a mechanism that constantly challenges the limits, just to prove that they do not exist.