Diploma work ctrl + alt + delete | 2025

Through this jewellery collection, I seek to unpack an internal conflict with social anxiety - a subject we often remain silent about, attempting to hide it, suppress it, and render it invisible to the outside world. Using jewellery as a medium, I create a dialogue with the body by materialising and localising these intensified feelings and symptoms. This work is based on the deconstruction of non-functioning mechanisms, reflecting the destructive state of anxiety. The deconstruction process itself becomes a form of self-analysis, allowing one to dissect and look into what lies behind the object’s framework.

Prism Necklace

analog camera prism, radio mechanism rubber, silver

Distorted ring

projector glass, silver

Escape earring

aluminium, silver

Do not push brooch

casette holder, silver

Microscheme bracelet

brass

Photo credits: Didzis Grodzs, Katrīna Vītola