Valentina Cziko (Romania)
VALENTINA CZIKO
Biography:
My name is Cziko Valentina. I am a contemporary jewelry designer. I use in my collections combinations of precious metals and a variety of precious stones. For this year's collection entitled Birds, I used silver tableware welded with flame, I introduced elements of copper and brass imprinted as well as precious stones to accentuate the plumage, thus creating a near reality image of birds and their freedom.
Collection Concept: BIRDS
I have been thinking lately about freedom, and how much we missed it during the pandemic. Now we are living in uncertain times with the Russian threat. And I am thinking again of freedom.
I wish I could hide in a nightingale soul, even if she is not very pretty – like lyre lyrebird or peacock. But she is free to fly as high as the sky. She is free to sing as much as the forest holds her. And her voice is charming. I listen to it in the forest, early in the morning when the other birds are asleep. Like she will not mix her voice with the others. And I hear it also late at night, when her voice lifts the sound to the sky, like talking to God. I would like to think that she reminds Him we are missing peace, we are missing the love of humankind, of freedom.
