A LEXICON FOR

JEWELERS IN LOVE

In many cultures, jewelry embodies a lover’s truest feelings for his/her object of desire, or seals the vow of a life long commitment. Jewelry can also express more complicated love moods such as the lover’s yearning, despair or nostalgia for past happiness.

In the Lexicon of Jewelers in Love, fourteen jewelry artists showcase their work and confessions on the exciting, disappointing or funny moments that link love to jewelry.

PARTICIPANTS

Adelaida Pineda • Aysa Anna • Chien Yu Liu • Chloe Romanos • Christoph Ziegler • Criselda Lopez • Hilde Dramstad • Inca Starzinsky • Jill Herlands • Kate Connell • Marija Radosavljevic • Odile Yu • Philip Sajet • Sanja Mihovilovic

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Inca Starzinsky

All My Love – hair jewellery collection Rocks & Locks, 2025. Model: Olivia May. Photo: Patrick Gunning / Courtesy of Objects Beautiful Gallery.


Haunting

At the happening of the “UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT” you are not aware that it might become a treasure in your mind and change you. These moments can be trivial, like dancing with someone or eating cake with a friend. One day you will realize that these moments with loved ones are part of you and make you who you are today, they float around in your mind and sometimes pop into your consciousness and make you stop and smile or bring a tear to your eye.

I made six of these moments, with people I love forever,“visible” in the form of six cloud-like hair pins. The shape of each hair clip is made with merged hand drawn letters/sentences describing a loving moment.


www.incastarzinsky.com
@incastarzinsky

AYSA Anna

Balloon Ring – 2019. Silver, polymer clay. Photo: Ruben Sentosa.


Relationship

Love hurts and it floats.
"If I was a cactus, you would be a balloon. Oh no, I wanna feel the same as humans do, I wanna feel the same as you, but I don't."
Born With a Broken Heart, Damiano David.

This lyric unexpectedly connected two of my earlier designs: the cactus-ring and the balloon-ring. Though created independently, both pieces originate from personal experiences and memories. When seen together, they seem to mirror how I have lived love. Sometimes protective, sometimes fragile, always shifting.

Much of my work emerges in this way: ideas appear as fragments of a larger network of associations that accompany me through life. They surface without a strict plan, yet once materialized, they reveal relationships I did not foresee. The cactus and the balloon now belong to one another, joined by coincidence, poetry, and the playful logic of making.


www.aysa-anna.com
@aysa_anna

Chloe Romanos

The Journey – necklace, 2024. 9ct gold, sterling silver, feathers; silversmithing. Photo: Chloe Romanos.


Bewitched

Suddenly a wave
All makes sense now
The Past the Present the Future is all in one
We are flying above everything that ever existed
We are one we are everyone

A whisper molten in time
He has given me a dream
To a faraway land of magic
Or was I giving him a key
To find his way back to his heart


www.cloeleajewellery.com
@cloeleajewellery

Chien Yu Liu

i! – earrings, 2024. Sterling silver. Photo: C.Y. Liu.


I!

i
was intact
you appeared unbidden
something quiet as breath opened
a space
i did not know i had held a beat
and i still
but !


www.veraelileg.com
@veraelileg

Adelaida Pineda

Peanut Shell – pendant, 2025. Bronze and pearls; direct casting. Photo: Matias Castañeidas.


Union

Two peanut shells, cast in bronze, hold a secret within: a pearl, luminous and vulnerable, like the silent understanding between two souls. Together, they embrace as one. When apart, each half carries the presence of the other – a gift to the beloved, a promise that connection endures beyond distance.

The shell's rough and imperfect texture reminds us of nature's wisdom: love is not polished into perfection, but shaped by time, tenderness, and resilience.
The pearl shines as the essence of this bond – a symbol of intimacy and understanding, of the way two beings mirror and complete one another. Born from a grain and transformed within, it becomes beauty through its own process.

This ornament is an embrace to wear, a memory to share.


www.piornamentos.com
@piornamentos

Kate Connel

For You – earrings, 2022. Cardboard, bass wood, brass, steel, silver wire, acrylic paint. Photo: Sibila Savage.


Past

My love is Recycled, Reloved, and Remade into something that is Especial, Special, and literally Intoxicating.

The richer and longer your life, the more likely you've had the experience of these earrings – have you Remade a past love into a new one? Like some past loves, these earrings are made of something cast off – in this case, beer bottle packaging found on my street corner.

I love this blue color – cerulean with a drop of periwinkle. Surrounded by what I call "working class filagree," modeled on scraps of wire found on my street, flourishy and flattened by repeatedly being driven over by passing cars. They are made to frame a mature and much-loved face.


www.bookandwheel.org
@elrings_earrings

Hilde Dramstad

If You leave me now – necklace, 2025. Embroidery. Textile, found objects, mineral stones, mineral beads, mother of pearl, chicken bones. Photo: Hilde Dramstad.


Abandoned

"If you leave me now
You'll take away the biggest part of me
And if you leave me now
You'll take away the very heart of me

When tomorrow comes and we'll both regret
The things we said today."


www.hildedramstad.weebly.com
@hildedramstad

Marija Radosavljević

Rebirth 1 – ring, 2025. Mixed media, aluminum, silicone, metal dust. Photo: M. Radosavljevic.


Fragility

This ring carries the balance of being both shielded and revealed. Its dark, molten surface feels like armor, deep with silence and presence, yet from it emerges a fragile blue form unhiding, alive, reaching outward.

It reminds me that true strength is in allowing tenderness to be seen. Every opening, every tendril that grows and spreads creates space for connection. In this openness, endings naturally transform into beginnings, each moment holding the quiet promise of rebirth, a gentle unfolding of life, always moving, always expanding, always ready to illuminate the world with its quiet, vibrant pulse.


@maraliberta

Odile Yu

Cyclists – chain, 2024. Frosted acrylic, wire, bicycle chain. Photo: Odile Yu.


Yearning

A Walk That Never Ends
How I wish that never ends this walk,
Just like our first time in Hyde Park.

The crunch of leaves beneath our feet,
The rings of bells on bikes so sweet.
Footsteps echo, voices blended,
Nearby subways and buses tirelessly rotated.

People meeting, waiting, they do,
Reuniting, parting, all anew.
The city, in winter's grip, devoured sunlight with greed,
Photosynthesising like plants did.

But back then, my mind was so clear,
I can think of nothing, with you near.
I couldn't hear leaves break underfoot,
Nor did I remember the bus, or its route.

Nor did I care how long the night would last,
For your voice was the only thing that exists.


@oddddile_yu

Jill Herlands

You Have My Heart – ring, 2025. Sterling silver and raw Ruby. Photo: J. Herlands.


Surrender

My love,

You know how controlling you can be with me and how much I secretly love it. The way one look from you has me giving in without a fight.
It's dangerous how easily you bend me, how I let you take charge and rewrite the rules whenever you want. But the truth is, I crave it. I want you to keep pushing, keep pulling, keep testing the limits of my resistance until there's nothing left but surrender. Please don't stop.


www.jillherlands.com
@jill.herlands

Criselda Lopez

Corazón – necklace, 2023. Leather, hand cut and assembled together. Photo: C. Lopez.


Obsession

Color and pattern O B S E S S I O N
re-writing a necklace, a pair of earrings 1,000 times.

Arranging shapes and forms together
like exquisite stanzas
in a passionate poem.


www.patterngems.com
@patterngems

Sanja Mihovilovic

Tangled – ring, 2025. Concrete, epoxy resin, aluminium wire. Photo: Sanja Mihovilovic.


Tangled

We are a stubborn knot, Twisting more than we ought. Tides coil, tangle, and protest, Each one insisting it knows best.

Resentment flirts, hope waves hello, Memory giggles at the show. I can't tell where you end, or I begin, But neither of us seems to win.
And yet I hold, through twist and spin, Through sparkling loops and persistent din. Ridiculous, messy, impossibly true, Tangled in chaos, me with you.


@mihoselements

Philip Sajet

Le Rouge, le Rouge et le Rouge, collier, 2021. Wood, oil paint, glass, rubies. gold leaf. Photo: P. Sajet


Ménage à trois


www.philipsajet.com
@philipsajet

Christoph Ziegler

The curator as Medusa – Broom Brooch series, 2015. Found plastic objects, glue, steel pin. Photo: C.Ziegler.


Eyed

Love the curator,
venerate the knowing eye,
the guiding hand,
the one who loves.

Love your work
more than anything,
guided by your inner eye,
no matter what.

Love your instinct,
that makes your work unique
and helps you to survive
the fiercest battles.


www.christophziegler.com
@rossozett