i am an object maker.
i work out of need to give shape to my feelings
and ground them in matter.
metal inspires my work as a material.....
solid, hard, sometimes heavy.
yet so soft, its flowing into liquid, the melting into a new form...

my jewelrywork is a constant fascination with minimal shapes,
their relationship of color to metal into a continuing questioning
of the wearable.

i work mostly with sterling silver and copper, sometimes gold, fabricating shapes out of sheet metal and wire,
manipulating the material with heat
for a sensuous richness and to satisfy the longing for touching.

i suggest possibilities, i invite the wearer to dare.
subtly, i tease.

-emanuela aureli