JEWELRY IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST PERSONAL
FORMS OF ART.
ADORNING ONESELF CAN COMMUNICATE PERSONALITY,
STYLE, AND EVEN PHILOSOPHY ABOUT THE WORLD.
LOCAL JEWELRY MAKER, MARISA KROL, USES HER
CRAFT TO CONVEY EMOTION AND HER PERSPECTIVE.
TAKE A LOOK.
Marisa Krol: My name is Marisa Krol, I am
a jewelry metalsmith based in the South Wedge
neighborhood of Rochester NY, and my brand
is called Interstellar Lovecraft.
My work is metal craft, hand fabricated.
I feel like it’s jewelry that for me, it
comes from my soul and my intent is for it
to speak to speak to other people souls on
a very visceral level.
I’ll come into the studio with an idea that
I’m excited about or a series of ideas and
I just start playing.
Those ideas sort of take me in new, and different
unexpected directions.
I just show up for that process and that trip
with consistency and regularity.
Every day it’s a surprise what comes out
of it.
The goal for a lot of pieces is to get to
the area where we can add fire and join metal
together, and I feel like that’s like the
thrill of it, that’s the exciting part,
and that’s also the part that requires the
greatest deal of focus and attention
and patience.
I try to make a series, sometimes many duplicates
of a particular design so that everyone can
have access to a little piece of this.
I put the same love and energy into something
that’s a one off as I do into something
that’s like a repeated process.
I don’t wanna make things that are perfect.
That’s not fun, I don’t want to sit there
and toil away at the pursuit of perfection
because that’s unattainable.
I want it to be a perfect expression of the
moment, and for it to feel good, for it to
feel finished.
Making each piece unique and individual and
personal and not having a whole stream of
duplicates floating around out there, I mean
the work itself and duplicating something
is never as fun as the process of starting
something new.
I feel very fortunate that the shops that
i have chosen to work with at this point and
choose to work with me allow me that freedom,
and they say “we just want what you’re
doing now” we have an understanding, we
have a relationship therefore the work that
they receive is the most sincere expression
right now.
YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MARISA AND HER
WORK AT INTERSTELLAR-LOVECRAFT-DOT-COM
