BRAND STORY

NATURE IS THE FIRST DESIGNER

Nature has had millions of years to develop forms, structures and survival strategies that we are still discovering.

An insect wing. The texture of bark. A microscopic organism. A strange fungus. A creature living deep underwater.

What fascinates me isn't only how these things look, but why they look the way they do. Behind an unusual texture or structure, there is often a function — protection, adaptation, regeneration, transformation or survival.

At Chainsself, I don't feel the need to invent everything from nothing.

I observe.

Sometimes I preserve a natural form almost exactly as it is. Sometimes I transform it, enlarge it or adapt it to the human body. I work with wax, casts taken from organic structures, traditional jewelry techniques and 3D technology.

I think of this process as translating nature's language into metal.

BEFORE SILVER

Metallic Creatures existed before I started working with silver.

When I first created Chainsself, I was making jewelry from chains. When presenting these pieces online, I often used images and videos of insects, marine organisms and other living creatures as part of the visual world around them.

At that point, the creatures weren't translated into the jewelry itself. I simply found these images fascinating — especially macro photography and the amount of detail hidden in even the smallest organisms.

One of the creatures I used in those early visuals was Glaucus atlanticus — the Blue Dragon sea slug.

At the time, I knew almost nothing about it. I simply couldn't stop looking at its form.

Years later, after I had moved into silver, the same creature became one of the first organisms I transformed into a piece of jewelry, using 3D technology as part of the process.

In a way, the visual world of Chainsself existed before I had the techniques and materials to turn it into physical objects.

I just had to find a way to make them real.

FROM CREATURE TO METAL

My first step beyond chains was tin.

For a while, I became almost obsessed with soldering. It gave me much more freedom than chains — I could finally move beyond lines and geometry and start building more organic forms.

But I quickly discovered the limitations of the material. Tin was too fragile for what I wanted to create.

I didn't want these pieces to be temporary. I wanted to make statement objects that could be worn for years — pieces that could become part of someone's life rather than something they had to handle carefully.

That desire eventually brought me to silver.

And silver changed everything.

Working with wax, casting, organic molds and, later, incorporating 3D technology into the process gave me a completely different level of freedom.

Forms that had previously existed only in the visual world of Chainsself could finally become physical objects.

An insect wing could become a ring.
A defensive structure could become a signet.
A marine organism could become an ear cuff.

Something fragile and temporary in nature could become almost permanent in metal.

That was when Metallic Creatures truly became physical.

WHY WEAR ONE?

Originally, I made these objects for myself.

Wearing them was a way of keeping something close to me that genuinely fascinated me.

Eventually, I discovered that other people were looking for something similar.

I don't believe jewelry needs to transform a person. Sometimes the right object simply helps you express something that was already there.

One client once described wearing one of my pieces as: “putting on a missing part of myself.”

I still think about that sentence.

Because every time someone on the other side of the world discovers one of these creatures and decides to wear it, I realize something else:

I'm not the only one who sees it.

There are other people who can look at an insect wing, a microscopic organism, a strange fungus or a marine creature and feel the same fascination.

Chainsself is my way of sharing that feeling. 

METALLIC CREATURES

Today, Chainsself is an independent jewelry brand creating wearable objects primarily in silver.

Every piece begins with curiosity.

Some preserve structures that already exist in nature. Others transform them into something new.

But they all come from the same impulse:

to stop for a moment and look closer at the living world around us.

Nature was there from the beginning.

I just needed to find my material.