Sabina Dragusanu
SNAPCHAT HORA

This necklace shows an embroidery which originally represents a traditional Romanian dance called 'Hora'. The initial embroidery depicts girls dancing hand in hand, but the re-designed one shows girls alternated with the 'ghost' symbol of Snapchat. This is a metaphor for the way in which we 'dance' with 'ghosts' - we share every detail of our day to day life with strangers, people we have never met and might not even be real. The embroidery is degrading towards the end.

Born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, Sabina Dragusanu started making jewellery when she was only 12 years old, and what started as a hobby, soon became a passion. She moved to London in 2014 to study jewellery, and graduated from Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2017 with a BA Hons) in Jewellery Design. Her graduate collection ‘Contemporary Embroidery’ was awarded ‘Best Design’ by Theo Fennell and was selected to take part in the ‘Marzee International Graduate Show 2017’. Sabina’s craftsmanship turns away from conventional jewellery materials. Highly passionate about nature, her work shows the different ways in which she tries to express that.