rana kaabiya
Jewelry Design BDes
Shenkar
Specialisms: Jewelry / Silversmithing / Contemporary Craft
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
rana kaabiya
First Name: rana
Last Name: kaabiya
Specialisms: Jewelry / Silversmithing / Contemporary Craft
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My Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
University / College: Shenkar
Course / Program Title: Jewelry Design BDes
About
My name is Rana Kaabiya, I am 32 years old and was born and raised in a small Bedouin village in northern Israel. I recently completed my Bachelor’s degree in Jewelry Design at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art.
My creative practice is deeply rooted in emotional experiences and the personal journeys that shape them. I approach jewelry as a poetic medium - one that allows me to translate inner states into tactile, wearable forms. My design language is organic, drawing inspiration from natural environments and the silent tension found in materials, bodies, and spaces.
While metal remains a core material in my work, I often incorporate unconventional materials to expand the emotional and conceptual range of each piece. My specialization is in contemporary jewelry, where I strive to blur boundaries between ornament, sculpture, and storytelling.
In Desert Bloom, I explore the experience of life on the margins through a series of contemporary jewelry pieces that grapple with concepts of dissonance, estrangement, and fragmentation. The project stems from a deep personal need to give form to a sense of otherness - a kind of existence that does not fully belong, yet insists on blooming in the least expected places. Rather than viewing the margins as spaces of lack, the project repositions them as fertile ground for possibility, emergence, and quiet transformation. Through subtle formal contrasts and hidden tensions, I seek to capture moments of becoming - the fragile yet persistent process of growth from within cracks, in spaces where no one expects it. This project is a poetic reflection on resilience and silent resistance. It asks: What if the desert is not a place of absence, but a place where something profound insists on taking shape?
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