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Luciana de la Fuente

"I'm Luciana de la Fuente Carmelino and I was born in Lima. My birthday is October 12. My love for my country has led me to admire our majestic silver work and jewelry from the Inca and other pre-Hispanic cultures.

"My journey in art began when I was a child in Peru. I had creative feet and unlimited frontiers. My first steps involved learning about our ancient cultures. I did so by traveling throughout the country, learning from the most expert artisans and silversmiths techniques and secrets that had been handed down from generation to generation.

"In the Andes, I met teachers who gave me 'maps' of jewelry shops, silver workshops and sculptures. I also learned from the marvelous landscapes of Peru, where I created my own imaginary workshop. This led me to discover my vocation for designing jewelry.

"My feet toured the Andean mountain range and forced me to go further where I discovered the mines of metals and precious stones. I collected samples and drew my own maps where the landscapes made me fly, gallop – they could not be detained.

"As the years went by, I created new geographies where my footsteps led me to roads and landscapes as though I were an original nomad, where I'd leave the footprints that would later be seen in my jewelry. These horizons where my soul rests peacefully in an interior world permit everyone to see them in each of my creations.

"This imagination became reality as I worked with every Peruvian artisan, recognized in the world for their impeccable and limitless work.

"Each one of my pieces in silver evokes a fusion between a millenary culture and a vanguard style that seem to remain intact in time and be present, simultaneously, in the past of a culture rich in jewelry that admired the strength of mother nature.

"In 2004, I entered the Studio Arrais school in Florence, Italy, where I complemented my knowledge of silver techniques. Today, in every design, I offer a perfect communion of my roots and my present, which makes each piece ethnic by genre and mystic in essence.

"Peru has, as a culture, the examples our ancestors left us, the pre-Inca and Inca legacy of their marvelous cities that yielded beautiful jewelry, ceramics, weavings and silver, the preserved walls of the ruins engraved with undeciphered symbols where we dream without encountering the great beyond."