DILAN BOZER

Atlas and Axis are a ring collection formed and crafted after our first two vertebrae.  The spine, although a vital and fascinating structure is impossible to really touch. After experiencing years of neck and pack pain, I always felt the urge to be able to touch my spine from the inside out, to access my pain. The more I tried to physically acess it, the farther I felt form the cause of it. Our nervous system which carries our thoughts and emotions are intricately woven into the spinal structure and much of the pain we hold is originates in intangible realms. In order to heal pain, first we understand  the spine as a living, thinking, feeling entity, our mundi umbilical. The gestures become ways externalizing the origins of pain, and also finding the healing within ourselves. The rings serve as a reminder, a piece of jewelery that makes the intangibleness of pain into a palm sized totem.