I want to share with you my recent installation work.

"May Your Children Not Know War"

Inna Peck, 2022

I was nine years old when my family immigrated to the Pacific NorthWest and today we still have family in our home in Ukraine. This work is about about confronting the current cultural genocide of Ukrainian heritage and people. This installation was made to immerse the viewer into a dynamic emotional landscape, where there are select materials and objects that make up the exhibit.

One of my favorite mediums to work with is glass, for its ability to hold and pass light through. To me, it represents the universal contrast of being a solid and a liquid, resilient and fragile at the same time.

I work with detritus and discard scraps because they carry the history of their past life and I see that as a way to layer stories into my work. The domestic objects represent the violation of societal order and the invasion of private spaces.

One of the oldest Ukrainian symbols is the headdress. The vinok was always decorated with different colored ribbons which were imbued with symbolism and meaning. Girls use red ribbons to intertwine poppies into the wreaths, they are symbols of grief and magic. My personal reference to the ribbons is a special tree by the river in Kyiv where people come to tie ribbons to cast their wishes.

Namysto (necklace in Ukrainian) is an important part of traditional jewelry worn by ancient and modern women. The beads (most often red) had an aesthetic and symbolic meaning. It is believed that the red necklace beads drove away evil spirits.

There is a hidden meaning behind traditional patterns in Ukrainian embroidery. Ukrainians believe that embroidery is able to act like a talisman, protecting against everything bad. Many symbols represent happiness, fate, life and power within the ornamentation. The patterns from traditional needlepoint embroidery are represented on the broken panels of glass to reference cultural destruction and erasure.

My neon sculpture is now available for purchase.

My neon sculpture is now available for purchase.

Let me festively adorn you!

Welcome to my revamped website. As many of you know, this is the time of year we shift our focus to sharing gifts in our communities. As we forge new ways of supporting and investing in our communities, I want to encourage you to purchase gifts that create a more magical world- where both the jewelry wearer and jewelry maker’s lives are enriched. Now until this coming Monday, all items are 20% off with special code: HANDMADE. Stay safe and cozy!

Thank you for your support during these strange times.

I love body adornment and have been wearing and making jewelry for a very long time. I fell in love with glass long before I even imagined having access to specialty studios of being able to figure out how to work with it on my own. It has so many contridictory aspects. It is incredibly strong as well as vulnerable and fragile. No matter how large or dense a block of glass is, if you hit it at a point, the whole thing will stack and shatter. Glass can be stable as a solid and flow and move like liquid in high heat. I believe that we are in the midst of radical changes and I hope that current social climate will encourage people to reflect on life and what’s important. Life is what happens when you’re busy doing other things so lets at least make sure we are wearing awesome jewelry and appreciating one another.

Quick update on the state of things.

Hello. Since everything in the world seems to be going through a metamorphosis, I decided to revamp my website and focus on making most of my work available for purchase here, directly from me.

I am currently making masks, prototyping new jewelry designs and beginning to make new work in my own studio.

I love collaborating with new designers so let me know if you are dreaming up something we could create together.