The moment when jewelry becomes sculpture

Jewelry is often where the story begins. But sometimes it is not where it ends.

For many years I have worked with paper to create jewelry objects meant to be worn, pieces that move with the body and become part of a person’s presence. Necklaces, chains, forms that live in movement.

But at a certain point something changes.

The material begins to ask for more space. The gestures become larger. The ideas want to exist beyond the scale of the body.

In my work, paper has never been simply a material used to make jewelry. It is a language. And like every language, it needs the freedom to evolve.

This is why I have started creating paper sculptures.

They are born from the same gestures and the same patience that I use for my necklaces and chains. Every element is still made by hand, one by one. But these works are no longer meant to be worn. They exist differently. They occupy space. They breathe in another way.

It is taking time. Perhaps more time than I imagined.

But when you work with your hands, time becomes part of the work itself. Each piece slowly finds its own balance, its own structure, its own presence.

From my point of view, the direction is already clear.

Yet every artist knows that the final step does not belong only to the maker. A work must also encounter the eyes of others—the people who look at it, who feel something when they see it, and sometimes those who decide to live with it.

That moment of encounter is always a small mystery.

But the evolution (from jewelry to sculpture, from object to artwork) is something that cannot really be avoided when an artistic language wants to grow.

At a certain point the work simply asks for more space. And when that moment arrives, the artist can only follow.

Paper was once the material of my jewelry.

Now it is becoming the material of my sculptures.

Soon.