Tsugika by Sahana C
Diploma in Fine Jewellery Design 2024 Batch
Kintsugi Evolution with Earth Elements by Sahana C, which won “The Golden Mend Award”, can be summed up as delicate gold lines following through ceramics, but she’s transmuted that ancient Japanese ambience and reimagined it as ingenious jewelry, you’ll take great pleasure in wearing.
Have you ever gazed at something that has been broken and asked yourself, how can it be fixed into something lovely? That is the philosophy of Kintsugi. Instead of camouflaging flaws and pretending that it was never broken, Sahana’s reimagining the fissures, chips, the complete ensemble is on display, with nothing left in the shadows. As a matter of fact, that is the whole premise: wear your scars, your past, your quirky little things and all.
The Elements of Earth is more than just promotional rhetoric. She’s reaching for the raw parts of nature—cycles of birth, death, and all that overblown commentary. Nature doesn’t hide its odd spots, it lets things get weathered down, into dust and bring forth something new. That same attitude is channeled everywhere here.
Achieving it required significant effort and coordination, which was no simple task. To begin with, the whirlwind of activity to determine the right craftsman who’d work brass the way Sahana had in mind. Visions were misunderstood more often than acknowledged. There were definitely some moments of uncertainty along the way. And discovering the right materials was horror in itself but, that’s creativity in progress.
In the end, she pieced it all together: brass, gemstones, suave sunmica sheets, all conveying “resilience,” “healing,” and “nature’s weird but awesome.” Essentially, what you’re looking at isn’t just jewelry. It’s a gentle chaotic love letter to imperfection and bouncing back. You’re not merely adorning yourself with something beautiful. You’re becoming a part of the community that wears its stories, flaws and all, with pride.
