Hola ♡

I’m Val, a 27 year old Latina artist, designer, and creative entrepreneur who found herself through nature after migration.

Many people have described me as a renaissance woman: someone who has cultivated curiosity and devotion across many forms of creation. I have always resonated with this idea because I see life itself as a medium, one through which we are constantly invited to create, transform, and remember who we are.

My journey toward self-trust began when the home I knew began to crumble.

In 2016, my family made the difficult decision to leave Venezuela due to the socio-political crisis that was reshaping the country. Before leaving Caracas, the first thing I did was gather and press flowers that would forever preserve a memory of the place I loved most. Nearly ten years have passed since that August, and I still carry those flowers with me today.

For a long time, I searched for a sense of belonging.

I first felt truly at home in the United States when I visited a small organic farm in North Central Florida. Surrounded by endless rows of flowers, vegetables, and wild landscapes, I experienced a feeling I had been missing for years: safety. Peace. Connection.

Without knowing much about farming, I made the impulsive but deeply intuitive decision to move onto the land, hoping to find space to process the immense transformation my life had undergone.

Living close to the Earth became medicine.

Working under the sun each day, witnessing cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration, slowly restored my understanding of belonging. In this season of healing, I began pressing flowers again and rediscovered my creative practice through a new lens.

I had always been an artist, but for the first time creativity became something deeper than expression. It became a way of understanding why I felt so whole in relationship with nature.

Following this curiosity led me to found Flores de Miel in 2019, a wearable art and fashion brand centered around nature, sustainability, beauty, and belonging.

Through this work I began exploring the profound interconnectedness that exists between humanity and the living world. I came to understand that the same intelligence that animates flowers, rivers, insects, and forests also lives within us.

And in remembering that, I remembered something essential: My body is also my home.

I began seeing jewelry as a form of technology, sacred objects we carry on the body to preserve memory, identity, and meaning. Like flowers pressed between pages, adornment allows us to carry pieces of what we love most.

Making an altar of the body has become my daily philosophy.

Through my work, I hope to offer others the same remembrance: that you belong, that beauty is your natural state, and that wholeness already exists within you.

Over the past six years, building Flores de Miel has allowed me to expand far beyond jewelry making alone. I have developed collections rooted in storytelling and cultural identity, collaborated with photographers, models, designers, and fellow artists to bring creative visions to life, participated in markets and community events, and cultivated spaces where art becomes a shared experience of connection.

I have come to understand that creativity is not an isolated act.

Some of the most meaningful parts of my journey have come through gathering, collaboration, collective expression, and witnessing how art allows people to feel seen by one another.

Today, I continue nurturing an intimate relationship with my surroundings by foraging and gathering many of the natural materials used in my work. This practice keeps me grounded in the same truth that began this journey years ago: Nature reminds us that belonging is not something we find, It is something we remember.

Valeria Rosich
Founder, Designer & Creative Director