My jewelry is rooted in actual Kintsugi repair. Every piece begins with a real ceramic fragment—discarded by the artist, broken on purpose because it couldn’t be sold or used.

Kintsugi, translated as “golden joinery,” refers specifically to the Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics using urushi (natural lacquer) adorned with gold. Its roots stretch back thousands of years, with early lacquer-based repairs (known as urushitsugi) dating to over 4,000 years ago—perhaps even earlier.