Hi, I'm Ekaterina.
My rings are naive. They are a little clumsy. I make them that way deliberately, because I think that's where the life is — in the thing that looks like it was made by a specific person rather than a process.
I make silver rings. All of them, entirely by myself — and I mean that more literally than most people do when they say it.
I learned sand-casting so I could control exactly what happens to the metal. I build my own molds from polymer clay and found objects — things I pick up, press in, combine. Whatever leaves the right mark. This is impossible with traditional lost wax casting. Sand-casting gave me the freedom to experiment, and I've stayed for the results: bands that come out soft, kneaded, not perfectly round. Fingers aren't round either, so this turns out to be correct.
The question I keep asking is: what can the silver hold? Sometimes a raw stone, cast in place so it never leaves. Sometimes vintage millefiori glass, sometimes a found object, sometimes a Swarovski that has no business being as beautiful as it is.
I'm also always trying to add colour. Silver on its own is elegant and cold and I find that slightly unbearable, so everything I make is an ongoing experiment in color. The stones, the beads, the enamel — same obsession, different day.
No outsourcing. No shortcuts. If something has my name on it, it has to be completely mine.
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The silver comes from Dutch antique spoons — it arrives already carrying something, and I add more.