Forged by Fire

Her uncle, a sculptor, melted bronze to create impossible shapes. As a child, Cintya would watch him pour liquid metal into sand molds. "Fire transforms everything," he told her. She didn't know then that those words would set the course of her destiny.

The colonial architecture of Torreón taught Cintya structure; the reliefs and embellishments of the churches. But it was the ancestral fire—that of her grandfather, her uncle, the desert—that showed her how what's solid is temporary, while what's liquid is full of possibility.

She didn't need a cocoon; she needed fire. Like silver transforming from grain to a molten river, Cintya went from building rigid spaces to creating jewelry that breathes. That was her personal crucible of transformation.

Cintya has been fusing Saltillo sarapes with molten silver since 2018. She asks the textile artisans she works with for specific colors: desert reds, earthy ochres, northern-sky blues. The soft textile embraces the hard metal, creating jewelry where two traditions merge.

TYARO restructures familiar letters and distant traditions. Their pieces bring together hand-woven sarapes and forged silver: wool or silk ensnared in metal frames that rotate without ever showing their reverse side. The fire that transforms metal also unites two northern crafts.

Cintya is the epitome of all the fires that came before her and the fabrics surrounding her. The fire of her blacksmith grandfather, her sculptor uncle, and the lagoon-scattered desert now melts silver that embraces centuries-old sarapes. She is transforming two northern legacies into jewelry that shines bright with her heritage.