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Patricia Gurgel-Segrillo

 

     
         
     
         
     

The pieces I design and make to be worn must be very useable and comfortable. This is the key for me.

People often say things like, ‘I never take them off’, and I take that as the greatest compliment. Showing them to the world pales to insignificance; the real kick is in becoming attached to them.

Someone once described my work as ‘rootsy but urban, classy

but understated’.

If that’s so, it might be because I was brought up between the city and the country.  It might have something to do with being from Brazil: a country often described as ‘a land of contrasts, a place of extremes’. 

Another commentator said my pieces made from interlaced silver and gold ribbon reminded them of the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro: a city where strands of wealth and poverty, ethics and violence, culture and corruption are constantly intertwining.

The middle is a place of constant friction: where the challenge is.   And, through the creating and making process I strive to reach, even if momentarily, a place of balance.