1. why do you work with wood?

I have a great freedom in exploring the material on my own, as I didn't have a special training in wood. I was allowed to find my own ways of treating the material without a "right" or "wrong" in my mind. This is a precious situation while working.

2. you used different types of wood, is that for any particular reason of color, texture, origin ?

I want to understand the characteristics of the material. Wood is very inhomogeneous, every piece is different and therefore very interesting to work with. I enjoy to explore the subtle differences within the same species of wood as well as in contrasted types like limewood and ebony. Also it is one of the most beautiful materials for asthetical reasons as well as haptical.
I search for the fragility and the limit of the wood. And again and again I am surprised how strong and flexible this natural material is.

About „Coup de foudre“
„Coup de foudre“ is French for „love at first sight“. The characteristics of the materials wood and silicone are opposing each other and at the same time they complete each other very nicely. To me the spontanious, fabulous mix of these materials is like a „coup de foudre“.

About „Tilasm“
In 2011 I have stayed in Istanbul two months for a scholarship. There I took lessons in Arabic-Islamic ornamentation „Tezhip“ in a circle of women. In Islam all kind of arts are prayers and the artist expresses this by creating something beautyful. I enjoyed the women‘s pure happiness in decorating kalligraphies with ornaments as a contrast to my own artistic education where the ornament is suspected to be superficial. This experience gave me new impulses to use ornamentation as an expression. The embellishment of the jewellery cycle „Tilasm“ simply celebrate the beauty of this world.