The spirit of jewels

Color is life.
The value of art lies in diversity.

These two concepts have guided my work since my beginnings as an artist. Inspired by them, I set out to search for a new kind of jewelry, one that transcends the mere decoration of a hand or a neck. Jewels that do not need to ornament the body to justify their existence because they are, on their own merits, little works of art. I deeply feel that color is life, joy, light, and peace. Happy people express color in the way they look at us, in their gestures, in their relations with others. I seek to use color on my pieces in a way that lets them emanate that liveliness, that joie de vivre. Despite living in an era that worships speed and mass production, I employ techniques that may take several days but allow me to create pieces of unlimited diversity. There cannot be two identical jewels, as two days of our lives are never exactly the same. The spirit of art jewelry is that each piece must be a unique, irreproducible work. There lies its true value.

Gerardo Zelalia