Terra Line - Brass

For me, brass has always been connected to ancient worlds. Gods, early civilizations, objects that feel older than written history. As a child I was drawn to antiquity, to archaeological finds, to things that carried traces of earlier cultures. At one point I even wanted to become an archaeologist. So when I began making jewelry, it felt absorbing and humbling to work with a material that already held those associations for me. What attracted me was not a concept, but a feeling and a sensory meaning.

In the beginning, working with brass filled me with excitement. It felt like entering a world that was ancient, mysterious, and difficult to explain, yet deeply familiar at the same time. I felt connected to something older than myself, to cultures that used objects to understand who they were and how they related to the world around them.

That period of my work was about learning and growing. I didn’t come from a formal jewelry school, so I had to figure things out on my own. Brass gave me space to experiment, to be inventive, to find my own solutions. It supported a phase of expansion, discovery, and the translation of my inner inspirations into form.

This is why the Terra Line feels like the foundation of everything I do. It is the ground I started from. Through brass, my work began to take shape, and through it I learned how I want to think, build, and grow as an artist.

I still work with brass today. Partly for practical reasons, especially when creating larger or more sculptural pieces, but mostly because the connection is still alive.

For me, brass carries the atmosphere and visual language of mythic worlds and early civilizations. Objects that feel ancient and unfamiliar at the same time. Forms that seem to come from another time, yet don’t belong fully to the past.

I’m drawn to this kind of liminal space - where something feels rooted and old, but yet sits slightly outside of what we usually accept as “jewelry”.