Hypatia Series

A contemporary jewelry collection inspired by Hypatia of Alexandria—widely regarded as the world’s first recorded female mathematician. She was also an astronomer, astrologer, philosopher, and one of the few women to lecture publicly in the intellectual circles of ancient Greece.
Though no true portrait of Hypatia survives, her image was imagined into history—most notably in Raphael’s The School of Athens, now housed in the Vatican Museum.

This series draws upon the intellectual core of Hypatia’s worldview: the celestial order and the purity of mathematical geometry.Shapes were abstracted, restructured, and recombined—mirroring the philosophical process of seeking truth through fragmentation and unity.Through pattern, proportion, and form, the series evokes the spirit of ancient Greek thought and gives it a modern, wearable expression.

The body may be destroyed, but the spirit of freedom endures.

Each piece echoes one of seven archetypes distilled from Greco-Hellenistic culture:
Clepsydra, Null Set, Astrolabe, Saturn, Truth, Freedom, and Philosophy.

Hypatia dedicated her life to the pursuit of freedom and truth—to knowledge without limits, and the belief that it must be shared.

But the era she lived in moved against such ideals. The final years of the Roman Empire were marked by fear, fanaticism, and the violent rise of religious orthodoxy. In such a world, the act of teaching freely was not only rare—it was dangerous.

Her devotion to open knowledge was seen as a threat. On her way to deliver a lecture, she was murdered by a mob, sanctioned by those who feared the light she carried.
Freedom Freedom

Freedom

Freedom

$190.00 USD
$190.00 USD
Philosophy Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy

$190.00 USD
$190.00 USD

  • Saturn

    Symbolizes the god of harvest and agriculture.
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  • Astrolabe

    The astrolabe laid the foundation for the geocentric model.
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  • Truth

    Hypatia pursued truth between the unseen world within and the visible world without.
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Clepsydra

In 3rd-century Alexandria, where Hypatia lived, the water clock was refined into the most precise timekeeping device known for the next 1,800 years.In ancient Greece, philosophy and science were one—and time, as measured by the clepsydra, was the elusive ideal they spent their lives chasing.
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Null Set

There is an old Greek riddle:
In what case is something both what it is, and what it is not? Such paradoxes fascinated the philosophers of ancient Greece. In mathematics, the null set represents this idea with quiet precision: a set that contains nothing—yet still exists. It holds absence as its only element. Emptiness, formally defined. Written simply as {}.
A shape that holds the invisible.
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