Emily Armenta is an historian, a romantic, and a skilled jeweler. Her biggest inspiration comes from Lorca, the Spanish poet, and early Spanish and Moorish architecture. Armenta jewelry pays homage to the Spanish belief in the Duende, combining symbolism, fresh feminine styles and old world techniques. In the simplest terms, the spiritual realm of the Duende is a creative process in which one must survive a struggle or darkness to achieve greatness.
Clear as mud, right? What the heck is duende or the Duende?
According to Wikipedia, “Lorca writes: ‘The duende, then, is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought… everything that has black sounds in it, has duende. [i.e. emotional “darkness”] [...] This “mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains” is, in sum, the spirit of the earth, the same duende that scorched the heart of Nietzsche, who searched in vain for its external forms on the Rialto Bridge and in the music of Bizet, without knowing that the duende he was pursuing had leaped straight from the Greek mysteries to the dancers of Cadiz or the beheaded, Dionysian scream of Silverio's siguiriya.’ [...] ‘The duende's arrival… brings to old planes unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, and it produces an almost religious enthusiasm.’” (Teoría y juego del duende" ("Theory and Play of the Duende"); Maurer (1998) pp. 48-62)
This ring especially brings unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, and produces an almost religious enthusiasm. Gorgeous, isn't it?
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