COFFEE DREAMS
About me
I am a divergent. My life is a constant exploration and curiosity. I live in Manhattan, New York, an Art Deco city, in a landmark Art Deco skyscraper created for artists in the Jazz Age. I cover multiple professional fields, healthcare, law, bioethics but my first love it was and it will always be, ART. I think, art softens the soul and heart to understand the world in the true light.
The curiosity I was born with and destiny made me choose several professional paths and fields. They have enriched my life, expanded my mind, my capacity for understanding, my imagination and my creativity. Diversity, constant human connections gave me energy and made me understand things in many dimensions. I create, read, write, listen to understand what I think, to learn who I am.
My dream define me, it comes true when I am creating. Reality is just a space in between for inspiration and the process of making.
My designs are shaped by childhood visits to the forests and my home town, Brasov and by inspiration acquired with my travelling all over the word, including the far winter land, Antarctica. My pieces are coming from my hand and mind wandering.
For me, traveling is relaxing but also expanding. It is a pause to gather thoughts, to let imagination and creation flow. The inspiration acquired exploring new places, different people, cultures opens the door to imagination, which, like travel, leads us to undiscovered places. My creations are infused with visual flavors and colors of the places and cultures I’ve passed through.
Traveling has made me realize, that there is so much beauty to absorb and spread in the world. Through my creations I feel that I nourish the desire and the need for beauty.
I received training at Studio Jewelers Ltd. School in Manhattan, New York. I participated in shows at Fashion Institute of Technology New York. I attended 2018 Arts and Crafts Fair in Nyack, New York, hometown of famous American painter, Edward Hopper. I am a member of The Bead Society of Greater New York. I exposed one of my necklaces for Re-fashion week NYC 2020, a world where style and sustainability go hand in hand.
I love exploring thrift shops, vintage markets but I’ve always had a modern, contemporary eye for design. I am part of the collective Ecological mindset that clothes and jewelry should not go in landfills. My creative vision is to design with mindfulness of the surroundings and people, to connect through beauty, patience and love. Design the waste!
I think we are all interconnected in the power of spirit and soul. A piece of jewelry is a door to another being, a compression that expands into another spirit. It opens you up to connections and understanding of others.
Creative Process
The first jewelry I created were as a child with my grandmother, from dried rosehips, water-drilled river stones and folded oak leaves. My connection with nature and sensitivity was inspired by my grandparents and my childhood in the countryside during the holidays that I wished would never end. The primal simplicity of the first jewelry I created remained with me as an ultimate goal.
For me the creative process is like an architectural crescendo, the first piece is like a door, then I create the balance, I add element by element, afterwards I decorate, amplify, create effects, spaces, double faces, as a reflection of our nature, like us in different emotions and environments. The complexity of modern life extends to many aspects and my jewelry adapts. When I zone out on something that I am working on, it’s creative, it’s imaginative, it’s restorative. I see jewelry everywhere, I cannot leave the house without wearing even more than one piece. I use in my designs variety, exploration, layers and transformation in tandem with my complex life. I create my pieces using recycled materials, metal, glass, ceramic beads and wires. I juxtapose shapes on other geometric shapes such as triangles, rectangles and circles. Some pieces have nature-inspired shapes with fluid lines of chains and double faces for different moods or occasions. I create jewelry in components that carry very little weight. My vision is that wearing sustainable jewelry made from recyclable materials is a spiritual, transformational, compassionate and reflective.
