STRING COLLECTION            ● Did the Amazons wear a torc neck ring in the decisive battles? With a stretched bow string, ready for victory ... The string becomes a chord, the bow - a harp, the battle cry of the string turns into music ... Something like the intervals in Dorian mode, which we know provoked trance and were a taboo outside periods of inevitable war (P. Zmiycharov). And the gun is still a weapon ...  ●The collection refers to the symbolic Celtic jewelry torc of the Iron Age. The idea of ​​creating an original torc from an inox rope "binds history and chrome" with the symbolism of power and strength in rivalry.  ●Indeed, Cassius wrote that the Celtic Queen Boudicca went into battle wearing nothing but a “big necklace of twisted gold” (which was a torc tight-fitted around the neck). Worn with or without clothes, the torc is a symbol of strength, nobility, and social status. The massive ends of the torc press certain meridian points on the body, which has a psycho-somatic effect.    ● Formally, the C-shaped form of the torc is a stylized Moon-crescent. This is a symbol of female energy and its aspects: intuition, metamorphosis, emotion, creation, transformation ...

... and do  the  Amazons  of  today  play  the viola?