I’ve already mentioned that Niki has arrived, but until now she hasn’t had the chance to introduce herself to you properly. So today, with much love, I’m sharing her words with you here:
My name is Niki Nagy, and I can say that I have been living in the freedom of creation since I was a small child. Everything flowed through my hands and was constantly taking shape. I painted, drew, cut and glued, took things apart and put them back together in a different way. Even then, I felt pure joy in making something out of nothing. This has always been my inner drive, my deepest motivation: to create, to bring something into existence.
After graduating from art school, I spent ten years shaping intimate living spaces as an interior designer. I could fully express my creativity through styles, colors, forms, textures and the harmony of space. In the past five years, however, I found myself unexpectedly drawn to a new path. I discovered pure plant-based body art, through henna and jagua painting. I fell in love with the patterns and symbols that come alive on the skin. This practice reconnected me with something ancient and wild within myself, my earth-woman self, my shamanic, witchy nature.
Then Intambo and Barbara appeared in my life, seemingly out of nowhere. I had been following her work for some time, inspired by the beauty she creates and the warmth she radiates through her presence. Her necklaces carry that same tingling rawness, that intuitive and visceral naturalness I feel inside myself. After attending one of her workshops, we became co-creators in a heartbeat. There was no need to adjust or align. We resonated from the very first moment.
What does Intambo mean to me?
What do I feel when I create under its constellation?
I sit in silence, alone with my thoughts, and I tell a story. It feels as if I am weaving dreams or writing a tale through the act of making. Through the jewelry I give shape to different characters. Every necklace that leaves my hands is a unique soul with a personality of its own. Alongside hemp, linen, jute, raw copper and crystals, I love to bring in gifts from Mother Earth herself. Feathers, wood, leather. These remind me, and the one who will one day wear the piece, that the truest support comes from nature.
For me, intuitive jewelry making is a ritual. A spiritual process, rich with presence and deep feeling.