With a background in media and programming, I bring an unique perspective to jewelry making. Data is quite often used in jewelry - engravings, birthstones, symbols. But I like to go even deeper and analyze larger samples of personal data and use the results in my creations.
For the piece 'With open friendship', I wrote a script that identified the 3 most-used emojis in chats with my childhood best friend, who now lives far away. I invite viewers to glimpse our private conversations, sharing our digital connection and inside jokes. The title alludes to the Python language syntax (with open("friendship.txt")). The emojis are arranged within an cartouche adorned with colorful enamel, linking to ancient hieroglyphs.
This work was displayed in the National Museum of Kazachstan during the exhibition The Jewelry code: Data as Wearable Art.
For "Wrapped" I downloaded my instagram reels data. Once I went viral, and this one reel stood out a lot, making all of my other content almost invisible. I "wrapped" this one reel around my wrist, highlighting both how we are "trapped inside" of social media algorythms, but also that we should "display" and embrace other things we make and love, not the ones that were chosen by an algorythm.
This work was displayed in the National Museum of Kazachstan during the exhibition The Jewelry code: Data as Wearable Art.
