About

Katarina’s childhood was spent pouring over beautifully illustrated storybooks. Like many children, she carried these stories in the back of her mind as she grew. Storytelling became her way of making sense of the world, of forging deep and authentic bonds. She saw this as her purpose in life, and it ultimately manifested in making objects. 

Each piece of jewelry she creates is infused with a story, and incorporates design elements from a specific historical era. They are imagined to have been made during that time by someone who lived and breathed their culture, and who believed in the objects’ supernatural powers.  

Like the human soul, jewellery can be in perpetual motion. It is also totemic – embodying parts of our personhood and memories.

By pushing mechanical boundaries as well as aesthetic ones, these pieces follow the principles of technology of enchantment. Their size challenges the notion of how small an object can be while still allowing a gap for movement. With motion comes energy. Small objects are able to express big feelings. 

Katarina’s jewellery is aesthetically artisanal and mechanically ambitious, expressing an existential balancing act between sentimentality and practicality. On the one hand, we adhere to the notions of cosmic order, fate, spirituality, superstition, and determinism. And on the other, we believe life to be ludicrous, whimsical, playful, and arbitrary. Each piece of jewellery possesses tangible and well as intangible value. 

This tension is temporarily resolved when tactile movement is associated with an object and performed repeatedly, creating and satisfying a personal and intimate fetish. 

In an ever-changing and often alienating world, jewellery offers a sense of agency, a possibility to write a story by offering an introduction and an opportunity to the wearer to write the rest. In this world, we spin, flip, push, press, twirl and ask.

Engage with these tiny treasures, cherish them,  and above all, remember to have fun.