Francesca wants to make jewellery objects that work as relics, small-scale armours and at the same time as talismans. She is inspired by the Japanese culture, in particular by the Wabi-sabi aesthetic and Kinzugi technique, where the concept of beauty relates to something imperfect, ephemeral and sometimes incomplete or perhaps broken. Vulnerability becomes the strength.

Knots often weave their way into her creations, taking on both abstract and intricate forms. These shapes serve as symbolic representations of connection, memory, and the art of mending.

Her goal is to create a sense of worn with her jewellery pieces, adding some “Imperfections”, a reminder of transiency and time passing, often translated into rough textures on the surface. They draw us with curiosity and allow us to create our own stories lost in time. Francesca uses mostly silver in her work, as well as, Mokume-Gane and shibuichi (a Japanese alloy made of silver and copper). 

Mokume -Gane is an ancient Japanese technique used in the 17th century to adorn swords. It consists of a block of metal made from many layers of different metals, stacked on top of each other to form a sandwich, called billet. The billet is fused with a torch or in a kiln and pressed to obtain a sheet.  By hammering, stamping and carving on the surface of the sheet, the layers of metal are revealed, resulting in the metal surface being covered with many different patterns and textures.