Vice-versa

Invisible Beauty: From Intestinal Cells to Contemporary Jewelry

When I began studying science at Concordia University, I had no idea it would one day lead me to a jewelry collection. What started as a personal journey into biology slowly transformed into Vice-versa — a collection inspired by epithelial cells, those tiny, vital structures that line our intestines and quietly protect our lives.

As someone with dyslexia, reading dense scientific material wasn’t always easy. To truly understand what I was learning, I drew everything — cells, membranes, layers of tissue. These drawings became a kind of visual language, a way for my hands to remember what my memory sometimes couldn’t.

Among all the systems and structures I explored, I became fascinated with intestinal epithelial cells. These are the frontline workers of our digestive tract — absorbing nutrients, forming protective barriers, and constantly renewing themselves. Their quiet resilience, their layered beauty, their essential function — it all stayed with me.

Over time, my scientific sketches evolved into something more poetic. I began imagining what it would mean to wear these cells — to honor them, to make their hidden labor visible through form, texture, and material. That’s how Vice-versa was born: a jewelry collection that turns the microscopic into the tangible, the internal into the external.

The pieces are not literal replicas of cells, but translations of their forms — curves, patterns, divisions. Through silver, shapes, and space, I tell the story of invisible architecture and inner strength.