As a goldsmith whose art is forging, the melting point is the beating heart of the craft – a moment when the material surrenders to heat, separates from its hardness, and allows for a new beginning. In my circular video work, grains of silver are melted into an ingot, from which a forged ring emerges – only to melt again, fall apart, and begin again. It is an endless cycle of creation, disintegration, and renewal.

Melting point is also a starting point – a possibility to fuse ideas, perceptions, fears, angers, memories,  perceptions, and transform them to beauty.

Melting point is the central tool in my work, the place where identity mixes with material, memory, and technique. As in the saying “From dust you came, and to dust you shall return”, here too – from the grain to  ring, and from the ring to  grain – the circle of life is embodied.

The work is accompanied by a poem by Paul Celan, in which a ring awakens on the hand – a symbol of emergence, of encounter, and of the search for what is lost. The melting point is where I dig, delve, and reconnect.