My inspiration often comes while I am sleeping. Many times, a clear piece of jewelry pops into my mind just by observing the world around me, looking at a picture or just watching several forms of my daily life. I may see a simple line, a luminaire or a building full of curves and immediately imagine it in a jewelry form. I am very much inspired by nature and its organic materials. What nature offers cannot be done by human hands.
Read MoreProvoked by an interest in material fiction, Melis’ work examines loss, desire, and the notion of burden that individuals carry from their relationships. Her sculptures and jewelry objects explore the unseen tether of the physical and emotional weights that affect individuals in how they perceive their connection to others, their bodies, and space.
Read MoreI like to work on different levels of art, handicraft and design. I mix materials with a conceptual content, especially from the everyday life. I am a helpless collector of almost everything, trash and wasted things but also material from the nature, especially stones, shells and pieces of wood. The shape, condition and color are significant and therefore a thing must very often wait for the right moment to be explored and developed because I want to have a message or a story in my jewelry.
Read MoreI adamantly believe in designing and creating unique and one of a kind pieces of jewelries for all the art lovers that seek and understand the importance of expressing one’s identity.
Read MoreLooking back, everything I did before attending the Assamblage School of Contemporary Jewelry courses, were but quests for meaning. I started making jewelry in a very monotonous period of my life, when I was no longer finding my bearings and exhilaration whatsoever. I was in need of a creative offline activity and jewelry-making came to light as the only way that made me feel really good.
Read MoreI am interested in the fact that sculpture has a no verbal language, beyond limits, beyond meanings, the emptiness in my pieces is not a thing, it is an energy.
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