I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1975.
I trained as an Industrial Designer.
Ever since I was a child, I felt I had my hands had a special ability, so I started as a potter at the age of 12, and worked to perfect a technique called engobe (also known as clay slip coating) for 20 years.
In 2006 I moved to Buenos Aires, where I continued learning other pottery techniques.
In 2008 I moved to Santiago de Chile; here I began training traditional jewelry in the first place and then, in 2012, I turned my attention to Contemporary Jewelry.
This is where I found a vehicle to express emotions. I launched myself into creating jewelry with a soul, pieces that could stir the wearer’s heart and make him or her long to treasure them.
To me, a piece of jewelry is intimately related to the body and also has to be wearable.
I create my pieces thinking of them as portable art; they are finished when they are worn: every time this happens, it fulfils their purpose, their destiny.
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At first inspired by the “Delirium Tremens” I raved this kaleidoscope series that have inside colorful deliriums… Finally I forgot the alcohol deliriums, my invitation, in Eduardo Galeano’s words is: “¿What if we become delirious for a while? ¿What if we look beyond the infamy to guess other possible worlds?”
These intimate landscapes not only identify me but are also a pursuit of my own character, of my roots that lay in that place where I come from, and of the road already travelled. They are a journey that takes me to my beloved Montevideo Watercourse, in Uruguay… those marine horizons where so many times I found the irrational and harmonic balance I was searching for.
This job derives from the transculturation idea which often arises when a person migrates.
The starting point is the cultural exchange that happens between the locals, those who belong to the arrival place and the newcomer, the migrant.
Golden ratio, the irrational number 1,6180339887…, geometry, constructivism, Torres Garcia, identity, the sea, the horizon…
Those are my Guiding Principles and the elements that can be found in this series of landscapes.
Phone: +56(9)9510-2151
Las Condes, Santiago de Chile
Chile
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