I’ve always lived between two worlds — Moroccan and Dutch.
For most of my life, people asked me to choose: “Which one do you feel more?”

But identity doesn’t live in halves. It moves, it shifts, it changes with light.

When I create, I feel most like myself. Art helps me express what words cannot.

In the Netherlands, the city was my home, yet water and greenery were never far.
I spent hours outside, wandering along canals, noticing flowers and insects.
I especially love grey days by the sea, when the air is cool and the horizon softens to silver.
It’s from this feeling that the name ZEEGRIJS (“sea grey”) comes.

From Morocco, I carry my love for silver — its quiet strength, storytelling, and memory.
The Amazigh jewelry I grew up around spoke through form, texture, and the weight of the hand that made it. That language runs through my work.

Now in New York City, I handcraft every piece of ZEEGRIJS myself.
The process is slow and tactile, a conversation between material and emotion.

ZEEGRIJS is for those who see beauty in imperfection,
and understand that elegance is always changing.
Every piece tells a story — of origin, transformation, and finding home in the in-between.