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Mila Gabriela De Félix Fullana

My practice moves across metalwork, sculpture, research, archives, and photography, primarily focusing on material exploration and wearables as vessels for cultural expression. I’m drawn to the history of adornment, Puerto Rican folk art and stories, the textures and forms of the natural world, and Caribbean spiritual practices —how objects can hold ancestry, belief, and the traces of syncretism.

Through the meticulous craft of jewelry-making, I create objects that complement the human body, allowing the wearer to become part of an artistic dialogue where art and user merge. While jewelry is central to my practice, I am also interested in working at larger scale, using metal sculpturally and allowing the body to relate to objects beyond ornament alone. I work primarily in silver, using processes like wax carving, hand forging, and sand casting, forming objects that wrap, press, and rest against the body in ways that echo gestures. In a recent ring titled Flor de Loto, the petals of the lotus are connected through a small hinge that allows for rotary motion, so they subtly move as the hand moves or as a finger interacts with it, creating a soft, delicate sound.

Alongside metal, I experiment with a range of materials and processes including glass, printmaking, clay, beads, found objects, and organic fragments, which introduce different forms of tactility, fragility, and movement. Photography extends this exploration as another layer of storytelling, particularly when I stage jewelry and objects against archival images to create dialogue across time.