Tourmaline

2000 years ago, perhaps when the Greeks discovered that heating a certain crystal attracted sawdust and ash, tourmaline ceased to be an ordinary and uninteresting element. At that time, the phenomenon of piezoelectricity was not known, nor was it understood that this stone (silicate) would become the gem with the greatest diversity of colors and hues. In 1824, David Brewster named this effect of attraction and explained it as the phenomenon where subjecting certain types of crystals to mechanical stress or changes in temperature caused variations in polarity within the mass. In other words, the energetic poles of the opposite faces of the crystal experienced movements and heightened their charge. Perhaps due to this extraordinary condition, throughout history, tourmaline has been believed to possess energetic properties of protection, isolation from negative energies, and conversion of negative aura into positive.

TURMALINA is a body of work that arises from the sublime principle of the mineral's attractive polarity and the idyll between life and death. By positioning sandpaper as an executioner of wood, as violence and transformation of form, interdependent and interconnected relationships are created. Opposites attract, collide, polarize, need each other, and create mega energies in the aura. The sandpaper becomes imprisoned in the body of the wood, and in turn, it fills it, adds the shine it lacks, and, by contrast, the abrasiveness of one exalts the softness of the other.