These pieces of jewellery are from my ongoing Remains collection, a long-term project of mine. To make them, I salvage leftover scraps of decorative wood pieces used to craft custom picture frames from the floors of Istanbul frame shops. I try to give the embellished fragments a new life through a series of inventive choices that elevate what was once considered disposable by giving it conceptual, emotional or aesthetic--instead of merely material--value. As frames, the materials are meant to take part in a dialogue with both the artwork and the viewers of that art; here the dialogue takes a different form as they become art pieces themselves, adorning bodies. In creating this collection, I found it gratifying that, through design, I had the opportunity to give these scraps an unanticipated usefulness and to enable the parts to recover a wholeness all of their own. In return, the scraps provided me with a material that was simultaneously noble (wood) and worthless (waste), allowing me to juxtapose the presumably precious against the not-precious, a theme that I have touched on previously in my work.