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Kessariani, Athens - Taming titanium
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- Thursday, 30 October 2008
"Some time ago I was introduced to a 70year-old woman. When she held my hand she said: What is this ring that you're wearing? I like it very much. Would you wear a ring like that? I asked her. Definitely yes, she answered. Old women usually wear brilliants and golden jewels, but she had a strong personality and was attracted by the titanium ring".
The Untamed metal
Elsa Sarantidis is a titanium jewellery designer. She has cut her hands several times with this rough metal and was forced to bind them up with gauze. All kinds of jewellery require artfulness, but titanium jewellery incorporates the strength of the artist as well. Titanium is a metal very difficult to be tamed. When you warm it up, its colour changes, starting from natural grey, turning to dark brown, then it becomes dark purple, fuchsia, lilac, light blue and then it returns to grey.
Titanium is a metal difficult to 'tame'. When you warm it up, its colour changes, starting from natural grey, turning to dark brown, then it becomes dark purple, fuchsia, lilac, light blue and then it returns back to its original grey color.
"This art embodies magic. When heating the metal every second counts, so one piece of jewellery is never the same with another. If I don't like it I clean it with emery, so that it can return to its initial grey colour and then I heat it up again. I don't mind profit, I want to like my jewellery". Since Elsa Sarantidis was a little girl she used to dream about designing jewellery. She was 22 years old when she first collaborated with the artist Nick Gklavas, next to whom her aesthetics totally changed.
A couple of years after that, she saw Joel Degen's titanium jewellery in a London-based gallery and she was very excited. She went to a university in London, where he works as a teacher, and looked him up. I want to be your student, she told him. "So I took the exams and got into Guildhall university, where Degen used to teach. London is full of art and it's open to new artists. There are dozens of jewellery galleries there, more than in Paris. In Electrum gallery alone, the works of hundreds of designers are being displayed".
Men like her jewels
In order to make her jewellery, Elsa uses the same rough material out of which the airplane turbines are made. It takes her more than forty hours of hard work to make a single ring. Her hands are often injured by the titanium, although the hands of those who wear the jewels draw men's attention. Titanium jewellery is popular
Her hands are often injured by the titanium but she doesn't mind. The hands of those who wear the jewels draw men's attention. Titanium jewellery is popular amongst men because they're held together screws and rivets and are strict and simple.
TEXT-PHOTOS: GEORGE ZAFEIROPOULOS
SOURCE: www.greecewithin.com
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