Nature-jeweler and artist Kira Koktysh created a new series of hand-sculptured pendants, or talismans, for Katya Leonovich’s S/S 2020 Menswear collection this New York Fashion Week. Fix and Fax marks Katya’s shift to menswear from couture womenswear. Kira too, had limited experience creating fashion for men; having merely created pearl cuff links, she was pleased and […]
The multitalented Indira Cesarine relishes the spiral. Her newest series of animated photographic light paintings employing this ancient symbol constitute the “Lumière” Series. Logarithmic and equiangular, the curve repeats scales and is thus considered fractal. I had the pleasure of witnessing the phygital presentation (pairing digital artwork with physical works) at The Untitled Space gallery […]
“Nature is the best Artist” Staking her claim yet again, as premiere nature jeweler, artist Kira Koktysh has installed the final link to the chain of her Botanical Metamorphosis series: First Seeds to Blooms, then Leaves and Fruits, and now—Mushrooms! The final link—Mushrooms: The Other Fruit—bridges the seasonal life-to-death motif. Remarkably mysterious organisms, […]
