ROSALYN CITTA

Rosalyn Citta grew up in Indonesia, a multicultural country where she could not escape diversity. An intellectual designer, her creations go beyond trends or seasonality, favouring philosophical expressions or as she calls it, “bold silhouettes and a mélange of textures that deeply portray artisanal value.”

Using oxidised and raw metal finishes, Citta manipulates metal to create enveloping cuffs and torque necklaces that sweep sensuously on the body. Her design vocabulary draws on the rich history and intricate jewellery craft of old Javanese gold. These handmade art pieces also go by the Wabi Sabi philosophy where emptiness and imperfection is honoured as beauty. “It resounds profoundly with my life values as a person. There is such a power withheld in the vacant, greater depth in silence than what is seen, saying the unspeakable.” The raw and precious nature of her designs nod to philosophical and cultural threads and imbue the pieces with a spiritual quality. She recalls her father’s antique jewellery collection of old Javanese gold pieces as an influence towards developing her own aesthetic.