Looking at photos of Pompeii, I asked myself the question the Lost City seems to provoke in everyone who looks long enough: What would I leave behind? And my answer was, of course, jewelry. It always outlasts us - passing through hands and decades and catastrophes, arriving tarnished, worn and maybe intact into a future it was never meant to reach.
The material choice for What's left behind was copper - it weathers and oxidizes, as if pulled from the ground rather than made recently. On this surface, Radiant Orchid - Pantone's colour of 2014, the year the collection was born - sits as a hidden timestamp. And then there's the synthetic, fluorescent nylon thread: my signature in the most improbable ink, refusing to let the work become only relic, keeping it with one foot planted in the now.
Pompeii preserved the ordinary by accident. This collection makes the same choice deliberately.
I made this. I was here. This is what's left behind.