Jewelry and adornment are the oldest of human traditions dating back 100,00 years with shells and beads. Kria strives to nurture a kinship with those instincts and the mysticism surrounding them and focuses on extracting objects for ritualization. From first discovering a skeleton of an Arctic Tern, or Kria, on a black lava beach east of her birthplace, Reykjavik, Johanna Methusalemsdottir began to cultivate her inspiration.