Blood Tears

8.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm

glass, silver

"Tear & Hive" Series. Jewellery is a vessel for emotion and transformation. The Tear & Hive series - featuring Blood Tear, Crystal Tear, and Midnight Hive - explores the balance between vulnerability and resilience, fluidity and structure. The Tear pieces capture fleeting emotions. Crystal Tear is a suspended droplet, weightless yet permanent, symbolizing time and memory. Blood Tear, in crimson, represents raw intensity - grief, love, and life's pulse. Both pieces play with tension, crystallizing emotion in motion. Midnight Hive, in contrast, draws on natural patterns, evoking the structure of a hive - community, labor, and resilience. It reinforces the dualities in the series: personal vs. collective, softness vs. strength, solitude vs. connection. By blending fluid and structured forms, Tear & Hive invites the wearer to engage with jewellery as a storytelling medium, embracing both the delicate and the bold, the fleeting and the enduring.

Mina Saneei is a contemporary jewellery artist and designer based in Vancouver, Canada. As a former Architect, they bring a unique structural perspective to their work, blending traditional influences with modern techniques to create sculptural and conceptual jewellery. Their designs explore themes of materiality, emotion, and transformation, often balancing fluid, organic forms with structured, architectural elements. Mina holds an advanced diploma in Jewellery Arts from George Brown College, where they developed a strong foundation in metal arts and jewellery design. They have participated in exhibitions that highlight experimental and contemporary jewellery, pushing the boundaries between adornment and fine art. As an active member of the Vancouver Metal Arts Association (VMAA), they currently serve as the chair of the exhibition committee, contributing to the development of local metal arts exhibitions. Beyond their personal practice, Mina works as a production manager in the jewellery industry, refining both craftsmanship and design efficiency. Their recent initiative includes co-organizing a group contemporary jewellery exhibition featuring sculptural and abstract works, further expanding their curatorial and collaborative efforts.