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About
The story behind TiKa* de La Botte..
Cassandre Martinez has been imagining and creating jewelry since childhood..
The discovery of metalwork opened new horizons for her, allowing her to fully explore her artistic expression under the entity TiKa* de La Botte.
She is particularly devoted to revealing a sensitive aesthetic and a refined sensuality through simplicity.
Her pieces guide us toward a path of purity, asymmetry, and contrasts — between gold and silver, matte and shine, raw and shaped matter. Imperfection runs as a common thread, like a mirror of our humble humanity.
Trained as a music therapist, Cassandre Martinez has always nurtured an intimate bond with Music, present both in her creative process and in the pieces themselves, it permeates her universe in subtle or bold ways, it unfolds in rhythms, in vibrations, in forms inspired by sound and silence.
“I feel that my work is born from a subtle dialogue between my hands, my gaze… and something more invisible: a presence, an intuition guided by Music.”
“TiKa de La Botte creates micro-sculptural jewelry that celebrates the aesthetics of wabi-sabi, the ancient Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and simplicity. The artist works with dualities: perfection and imperfection, intellect and intuition, art and nature, the geometric and the organic, rectilinear and curvilinear, sound and silence, strength and fragility, the ordinary and the extraordinary, and everything in between. TiKa's jewelry reminds us of the transient nature of all things and celebrates our common humanity."
Anna Tahinci – 2025
A few words about the process...
"In a certain way, each piece emerges from an inner movement — an impulse that seeks neither to control nor to explain, but simply to let something appear.
The metal, often recycled, often marked by the gesture, retains the memory of fire, of touch, of the unforeseen.
It is not about imposing a form, but about listening to what is trying to be expressed.
The result is often organic, almost archaic.
Raw, yet sensitive.
Irregular, yet inhabited.
Fragments that elude categories, leaving each person free to see their own story within.
There is, in this work, an aesthetic of mastered intuition, where technique serves the mystery.
And above all, a deep respect for what matter itself carries — that silent, fragile, precious part."