‘To me a jewel represents a place in the world in which one can lose oneself, like in the sparkling of a diamond or the careful observation of little plants.
For this exhibition I made jewels with the thought of a garden. Just as a garden is a sovereign piece of land, a jewel is a sovereign object.
When you organise a garden, you organise nature in a way that answers your idea of beauty.
In a garden you can retreat from the world around you, a world that pours out more and more information on us.’