Svalbard

The planet's last hope, stored deep inside a frozen mountain. On a remote archipelago between Norway and the North Pole. Under a vault carved into the rock hundreds of meters deep. Inside a bunker with millions of seeds, samples of all edible plants to feed our species in the event of a global disaster. A modern Noah's Ark designed for eternal life. To face any catastrophe, whether natural or man-made.

Few can pass through its doors, which rise monumentally like a beacon over the immense mass of ice and lead to an underground control room that records and catalogs each reference, previously dehydrated and X-rayed, to then be placed in a vacuum-sealed aluminum envelope within a refrigerated chamber at an unalterable temperature of -18ºC, an indispensable condition for its properties to remain intact for centuries.

Stored on long shelves, the boxes contain most species that have ever been cultivated, with origins dating back to the dawn of agriculture. The figures are overwhelming: 150,000 varieties of wheat and rice, 80,000 of barley, 40,000 of beans, and 25,000 of soy coexist alongside more exotic seeds, such as the Colombian butterfly pea, the sacred Cherokee corn, the African Bambara peanut, the Asian cowpea, or the unusual Estonian potato, among many others.

A treasure trove of genetic information to which most nations contribute, be it the United States or Burundi, Germany or Russia, Iraq or North Korea, without differences or distinctions. All through valuable contributions. Irreplaceable samples: no duplicates or copies are accepted. And only in case of an emergency in the donor country are they allowed to be withdrawn. That the seeds do not pass through their hermetic gates, that they do not return to the earth again is a sign, a sign that the Apocalypse has not (yet) arrived.

So we have traveled this far, to the world's seedbed, to design this new collection of earrings and necklaces that reflects, on the one hand, the wild territory that surrounds it, with its hypnotic icebergs, angular glaciers, the silver light of the Arctic night bathing the anthracite walls that preserve the planet's vegetal memory; and, on the other hand, the seeds, the true protagonists, with their organic and sinuous shapes in gold, wine, and translucent black tones. Miniature capsules full of life. With their unlimited power, their extraordinary potency, always ready to be thawed to rescue humanity again.