Designs By Sky Koltun

I believe we all have sublime qualities which one cannot really explain. Perhaps our most personal feature is our imagination; with it we can do anything... We can escape the physical world and experience things that are impossible to humans. In my work I try to create literary objects. I make metal sing and tell stories, reference the magical realism of of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and plant Marilyn Monroe's kisses on Kafka's frozen ax. I was a writer for 7 years and All of my pieces are based on stories, cultural myths, and meditations on popular culture.

Sky Koltun is a native New Yorker. She loves Coney Island, Harold & Maude, The Dresden Dolls, Metalwork, Harvey, Greta Garbo's Face, Andrew Amorosso, Our Lady of Guadaloupe, Sylvia's Avacado Pear Trees, Making things with her hands, Edvard Munch, Egon Schielle, The Cyclone, David Bowie, Being in Love, Alice in Wonderland, Chagal, Jimmy Stewart, Rimbaud, The Warriors, Buster Keaton, Sword-Swallowers, Fire-Eaters, and John Casavettes. Leadbelly, Bunny Rabbits, Walking through the Met, Robert Johnson, Mary Tyler Moore, Borges, Ballroom Dancing, The Circus, Sam Cooke, Punk Rock, Blue Roses, Paris, Riding "The Duke" (The Ducatti), Nashville, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Waking Life, T. Rex, Taxi Driver, Brighton Beach, St. John the Divine, Nights of Cabiria, Francesca Lia Block, The Pianted Desert, Psyche and Cupid, A Band Apart, The Sex Pistols, Cactus Flower, Bob Dylan, Joan Didion, Ignatious J. Riley, X, J.D. Salinger, Audrey Hepburn, Kerouac, Lavender, Lava Rocks, Barbarella, Jules et Jim, Bones, Dancing with Myself, Pulp, Jackie Brown, Anatomy, The Philidelphia Story, Blood Oranges, Accordion players, you...

Most of my designs come to me in my dreams. I plan them out backwards often, thinking of the finished product, and then mapping out techniques I will use to create them. Often these dreams wake me up at night and I have to go and create something like a ring with four feathers at 3 AM.

I love to create things that I see in visions. I make spiritual, soulful, and ethereal creations that make me smile, and sometimes laugh. The most important thing is that the things I make give people joy and make them feel special knowing that they are wearing something that was created in joy, and made with love by an artist.