Daniela Banci, Archipelago, i.e., Europe Brooches, 2023, sterling silver, 750 gold, white agate, chalcedony, cut chrysocolla fragment, rock crystal, jasper, cut onyx fragment, varying sizes (max w 6 cm × h 9 cm)

The work is divided into six brooches, each composed of geometric natural stone elements placed on a silver plate. Each of the brooches corresponds to a letter of the word Europe; each represents a distinct, autonomous island that may share a common idea with the others. Europe is envisaged as a sort of archipelago, a plurality of individual elements cohabiting because inevitably separate.