With her background as a painter, Hanna tends to use paper or blank metal sheets as a starting point for her jewellery. These foldable materials urge for her attention and she loves their possibilities. Paper especially has the expressive qualities that she is looking for and is both light and flexible. Hanna finds there is something meditative in cutting and folding hundreds and hundreds of paper pieces, which she then use as building blocks in the construction of her jewellery. Paper makes it possible for her to connect a huge amount of items to each other without making the piece heavy or non-portable. No other material has yet offered her that same potential. The human body’s ability to both amaze and dismay captivates her so the idea of people wearing her pieces as an extension of themselves is intriguing. Hanna's jewellery becomes a manmade growth to dress the body.
