The memory of silver

Americas | May 1, 1998| | Copyright

From the terraces of Ester Ventura's house in Lima, just a few steps from her workshop on Malecon Iglesias, in Chorrillos, the bay is often shrouded in a rose-colored mist, and one's gaze is drawn to the broad Pacific horizon, which appears suspended in space and time. The atmosphere seems charged with the mystery of Peruvian legend.

A similar feeling is evoked by Ventura's avant-garde jewelry designs. Their unusual quality or, perhaps, secret is in the artist's combination of authentic objects and fragments of centuries-old pre-Columbian cultures in silver: Chavin beads, bits of Paracas or ...

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