Adorning the Courageous Aida Bergsen

| BY HELÉNE RAMACKERS

Based in Istanbul, jeweler and sculptor Aida Bergsen creates jewelry with different themes that reflect traces of her hometown and its multilayered cultural fiber. She draws inspiration from mythological tales and symbolic natural forms. Each of her wearable sculptures are meticulously hand carved in wax, then transformed into timeless jewels using traditional goldsmithing techniques. With her 20 years of experience, Aida Bergsen Jewelry today reaches out from Europe to North America, adorning the bodies of the courageous.

Having been influenced by some of the most diverse civilizations in its history, Istanbul inevitably forms of a truly breathtaking cultural and social mosaic from which Aida Bergsen draws endless inspiration. In particular the archaeological history and its roots to Archaic, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods and their multi-ethnic ways of living. Form-based and figurative, the World of Aida Bergsen is distinct with a play of light and shadow reflecting not only her traditional sculpting discipline but also her conceptual approach. Aida Bergsen initiates her design process from her own private myths and carefully transforms them into public dreams. Renowned as ‘wearable sculptures’, the collections hold traces of legends of gods and goddesses and the mysteries behind flora and fauna symbolism. | www.aidabergsen.com