Kinship Stories

11/05/2025

This is entirely handmade and a piece. It is available for purchase on my e-boutique (link in bio)

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05/04/2025

The woman: Travels to meet people and appreciate the beauty in similarities and in differences 💗

Model: The beautiful

29/03/2025

25/03/2025

This necklace is entirely handmade and a one-of-a-kind piece. It is available for purchase on my eshop (link in bio).

15/03/2025

These are from the collection. The collection fuses old and new, East and West, feminine and masculine, handmade and commercial. And yet it works -or so I believe 😌😊

Let us please learn from art and design: Harmony is great but without contrast, you get poor interest to the eye.

As I watch the world getting more and more polarized, I wonder why. We may have different beliefs, but we all need to believe. We may have different fears, but we all need protection. We may have different dreams, but we all aspire to make them true.




PS: Collection available on my e-shop.

10/03/2025

The woman: Proudly on the fringes, looks and dresses as she pleases, and appreciates differences among people. Her motto? "Il faut de tout pour faire un monde."

Model: The gorgeous
Necklace available for purchase on my online boutique (link in bio)

02/03/2025

This is entirely and a piece. It is available for purchase on my online shop (link in bio).

27/02/2025

As my students at found out today, people around the world have historically worn as a protective device against nature and the unknown.

Regardless of where they came from, who they were and what they believed in, our ancestors all tried to symbolically control their fears through tangible adornments.

From the and the to the Ancient Egyptian scarabs and the mesoamerican suns, these amulets signify/ied different beliefs but they attest to a universal need: safety and protection.

So before we exclude otherness, let's look at common denominators.

Here: Pieces for protection against the evil eye, animals, or the hazards of the world from , and .

23/02/2025

People often refuse the rights of others who are unlike them. They exclude them based on difference.

But science -or the science of colors in this case- advocates the opposite. Color theory indeed stipulates that contrasting colors, which stand on opposite sides of the color wheel, make each other SHINE.

Blue and orange, purple and yellow or green and red, as is the case of this , make each other pop beautifully. In difference lies distinction, rather than opposition.

May our politicians learn from our designs 😊

22/02/2025

This is me in the gorgeous , .

I stood there around 2.5 years ago, looking at the endless blue oceans, and thinking about the contradiction between the beauty of the place, and the bloody history it carries.

In the 17th C, Dutch sailors landed here and "took" the area from the Khoi Khoi and the Bantu, violently pushing them inland. Their main motive was to secure a resting space for ships heading from Europe to Asia.

And after the Dutch came the British, and "took" hold of the country's extraordinary diamond resources.

What an extraordinary word, this verb "to take!"

Today, I listen to Mr. Trump saying that he would like to "take" Gaza, and it makes me think that we need to go back go Square 1, and to discuss the importance of and .

So my theme, this time, shall be about this topic -and all the beautiful and timely lessons we can learn from textiles and jewelry on this issue.

21/01/2025

She does know how to dress: The woman 💗

Model: The beautiful

available for purchase on my e-boutique (link in bio)

15/01/2025

in progress. Stay tuned 😉