It was my father who taught me to make jewelleries. He is a self-learner.

In the beginning of 80-s he began trying to work with silver. Before that he was mostly drawing and working with wood. The source for his esthetical world is nature as well. He started to teach me when I was about 13-14. In our job we deal with the open fire and our hands have to be strong. Father started to make jewelleries, when after a birthday party I broke a silver spoon that my grandmother gave me as a present. I was about 10-11 at that time. In order to solder the spoon together he had to learn methods of working with silver. It was forbidden that time in the USSR. He was collecting knowledge from different people. He built a burner working on petrol with the help of a madras pump and a football bladder to maintain the pressure. When people saw such a machine they called it “Molotov’s cocktail”. So he taught me as well. Since I had arrived in Denmark, I never had any teachers. I was practicing it myself, no matter where I used to live: in a refugee camp, a hostel, or a city apartment. I always had a small workshop and I was working there.