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There are moments when silence becomes necessary.
Moments when stepping away is not absence, but devotion.
For the past two years, I chose to pause.
To pause the fairs, the constant rushing, the pressure of always bringing something new before it had time to truly become itself.
After participating in international fairs during my first years as an artist, I slowly understood something important: I was hurrying.
Every serious contemporary jewelry fair asks for a new collection — coherent, deeply thought, unseen before. And to create something honest, something alive, time is needed. Real time.
For me, that time became a year.
A year of work, of experiments, of failures, of long studio nights and quiet mornings spent touching materials until they finally started speaking back. A year of transforming fragile ideas into complete objects, carefully crafted and emotionally true.
Because a collection cannot be built in two rushed months before a fair simply because you want to show up with something. Not if you respect your work. Not if you respect the people who will wear it.
So I disappeared for a while.
One year for the collection.
One year for the website.
And now, both are finally here.
UNDE has a home now.
A space where all my collections, one-of-a-kind objects, and custom pieces can exist together — slowly, clearly, honestly. A place that gathers all the hearts, stories and fragments created throughout these years.
And maybe this is why AUTOR 2026 carries so much emotion for me.
Because I am not returning with noise.
I am returning with something deeply personal.
On May 16–17, 2026, I will be part of AUTOR Contemporary Jewelry Fair at the National Museum of History in Bucharest, presenting my newest collection: “Hearts. Fake”.
This collection was born from questions I could not silence anymore.
In a world where emotions are filtered, curated, performed and consumed, what happens to the heart?
How much of what we feel is real?
How much is rehearsed?
Crafted from silver and colored resin, the hearts in this collection are wounded, artificial, seductive, fragile, ironic and painfully sincere at the same time. They wear lips, eyes, spikes, pearls and scars. They become little creatures of survival — symbols of tenderness trying to exist in a world obsessed with appearance.
But beyond all its questions, “Hearts. Fake” is also a love letter.
A quiet thank you to everyone who supported UNDE through all these years. To the people who wear my objects and give them life beyond the studio. Without you, none of this would have been possible.
Thank you for loving UNDE.
I cannot wait to meet you — or meet you again — at AUTOR.
And because celebrations should be shared, the pieces from the new collection will be available at special fair prices during the event, lower than the prices listed on the website.
With love,
M.D.