discarded items

Mana Bernardes is a young jewelry designer, poet, and visual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the jewelry designer behind the Mana line included in the TOUCH on-line gallery. She brings new meaning to the term creative re-use, finding the idea of luxury in mundane household objects like toothpicks and hairclips or cutting pieces out of used phone cards and PET bottles to be used as discs for her jewelry.