The research process began with a reinterpretation of the image of the crown from an 8th-century Georgian icon, covered

with precious stones set in bezels. The bezels, or metal settings—mounts for jewels—served as the prototype for the future objects.

A brass sheet, like a bezel, fixes and embraces the glass, taking its shape and revealing its form.

The black expanse of the glass surfaces, dense as resin, combined with silvered brass, works

as an image of a cosmic body — integral and jewel-like monolithic.

And the smoke, smoke, as it seems to us, immerses in a sense of involvement and gives the air of respect for the history of creation and something

intimate, our native: for some it is a hut, whitewashed inside with a stove, evening misty evenings creeping along the surface of the water or

the silence inside a cave, where a conversation with oneself begins...

This was the first solo exhibition of the Castes collection. Not all items were shown, to give the space room to breathe.

Something else is in development, and we are looking for a temple-like emptiness for the objects, where everyone will feel at ease, where it will be quiet

and filled with calm high vaults. There, it seems to us, its full thought will be revealed.