Solve Coagula Design:

Solve et coagula is a principle of alchemy meaning "dissolve and coagulate". According to this principle, a substance must be broken down before it can be built up into something new. "Solve" refers to this breaking down of elements and "coagula" refers to their coming together, so nothing new can be built before we make space, breaking the old.

The name of the store was born from the idea of ​​creating beautiful things from unappreciated things, such as leftover bones from hunting. I want to combine opposite elements in my art and jewelry, and to challenge thinking patterns about what can be beautiful.

The store will mainly focus on jewelry, but at a later stage it may be possible to expand it to traditional and digital art, not forgetting photography.

Who?

I am soon to be middle-aged self-employed person who lives next to the old city wall in Tallinn, Estonia, with my husband. I try enjoy life to the maximum and get the best of it while we´re still here. I like to go to music concerts and festivals, I love art in different forms and I enjoy good food and wine, in a nutshell.

I'm originally from eastern Finland, although I've lived in Helsinki, Finland most of my life. I've had my own tattoo studio called "Kivun Kauneus", for 12 years, which I closed after moving to Tallinn, but of course I still visit Finland to tattoo.

I've been collecting bones and oddities from all over the world for years and the corners of the house started to have extra bones, so to speak. I decided to start making these jewelry for myself initially, but like most of the things I do, it got out of hand.

Ethics:

I want to honor the cycle of life and those who have been here before us. I want to think that I kind of to raise the value of the life lived.

Please note, that all the bones etc. that I use are from ethical sources, and not a single animal has been killed in order to get jewelry materials. Most of the bones are from familiar hunters either from eastern or southern Finland, some are from private collections and some collected from nature after they have passed away.