First Collection – 2024-2025: Do I Dare Adorn What I Left Behind?

– An Art Statement by Suluk

 

This collection began as a question—a whispered invitation into memory:

Do I dare adorn what I left behind?

 

These pieces are sculpted from a place of tension and reclamation, where the scents of animalistic wool and the fragility of glass awaken emotions I once silenced. Their presence lingers like ghosts—unresolved, sacred, denied. They embody the eternal friction between conformity and individuality, courage and societal expectation, belonging and separation.

 

Led entirely by material intuition, I chose glass for its vulnerability, its transparency, its ability to break and reflect. I chose wool for its primal, olfactory intimacy—how it diffuses from the body, holding scent like memory. These materials are not decorative—they are emotional transmitters, absorbing and releasing my innermost experiences, unfiltered and unpolished.

 

This collection marks the birth of Suluk. In a moment of devastation, I chose art as my rebellion—jewellery as my voice. I turned fear into form. I embraced the scent of my childhood, the stories I was told to forget, the softness I was taught to fear. This was never about conclusion—it was about emergence.

 

Each piece becomes an act of defiance, a ritual of remembrance, and an invitation to others:

To adorn what was once left behind.

To reclaim.

To feel.

To transform.