Samuel Mayo is the designer and craftsman behind Ardapony Jewelry, a collection of wearable and spiritual art rooted in natural materials .
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
Working nature's materials like metal rocks stones, wood to create with meaning and propose to adorn the body home or Soul
Where do you find inspiration?Going within, looking at light and shadows for ideas. Astrology, symbology. In my studies of adornment and it's origin I discovered the Ancient culture umbrella of knowledge, philosophies, practices, studies, rituals, era and time frames. What grab my attention most was the vast imagination of those if old that wrote about their ideas and thoughts that cultivated from the studious endeavor of the occult teachings which turn out to be more of spiritual information interpreted by many over time.
What would you do with $25,000?Keep creating and teach a select few what I've learned so that they may get a glimpse of what is already within them. To show what did not exist before , how only a thought can come to be material object. Creative ideas becoming real, for me was amazing to witness and to try again and again.
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