Sara Shahak

My jewelry collection draws inspiration from an imagined botany—a flora that may never exist, yet hints at possible lives of thorns, blossoms, and transformation. Industrial iron bells, once objects of play and festivity, are dismantled, sawn, soldered, and rusted until their original form dissolves, giving way to new structures—both floral and thorny, delicate and fragile, yet also sharp and present. Techniques such as enameling, pigment coloring, and controlled oxidation expand the material and chromatic range, infusing each piece with tension between industrial and organic, functional and useless, familiar and strange. The resulting jewels offer a tactile encounter with an imaginary flora—blooming and thorny, foreign and gentle—that preserves the material memory of its metallic, manufactured origin.

BLACK BEAUTIFUL SKIN, Collection: IMAGINED BOTANY

Brooch Bronze, Metal, Fire