I am Isabella Rosa, an artist and jewellery designer bending sculpture, woodworking and contemporary jewellery until they meet.

I am interested in the root and meaning of adornment as a cultural practice, one that has shaped human identity for over 100,000 years.

Anthropology is the lens I see the world through. Sculpture is the means. The wearable object is the ground I've chosen to walk.

I collect materials that already hold a precise voice: portions of matter that carry time, life, transformation. Part cabinet of curiosity, part ritual, I gather things, fragments and specimens that become extensions of the body, each carrying its own specific qualities, like strength, aliveness, depth.

I return to archetypal forms, those that define how we stand in the world as human beings. The relationship between interiority and the outer world: the shell, the casing, the armour. The call of the wild and the animal force. The allure of the unknown. The cycle of life, death, life. Passages and thresholds. These are the coordinates.

Subtraction is the method. I carve until only the necessary remains.

From 2013 to 2018 I worked as Cindy Leper, an independent, unconventional jewellery project.

ISAROS is the name this research has taken.