zlata maya
We make objects that remember the body.
Zlata Maya is a one-woman atelier working between Tbilisi and Lisbon. The practice is small by intention: each project passes through one pair of hands, one sensibility, one unbroken thread from sketch to finished print.
The work is indebted to Slavic folklore, Orthodox iconography, and the folk horror of the Eastern edge of Europe. We treat the talisman as a serious object — not decoration, but instruction. Every line we draw is asked: what does it protect, and from what?
We do not chase trends. We make things to outlast the room they enter.
— Maya, founder & lead
a mark in five keys
The sigil of the house — a haloed figure, two eyes, an open arch — drawn once in 2019 and redrawn in every key since. The mark holds its shape across paper, skin, screen, and stone.
Colophon#e9401f · Cera Pro
- Mark
- Built 2019, redrawn 2024
- Type
- Cera Pro, geometric sans
- Ground
- Vermilion #e9401f
- Use
- Minimum 24px digital · 12mm print
recent commissions
A small selection from 2023–2024. Identities, editorial covers, talismanic prints, and one mural in a wine cellar. Each piece is made on commission; nothing here is for sale.
A full archive is sent by request — write to the studio.
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the studio
We answer every letter within seven days, often with a question back. Tell us what you want made, when you need it, and what it should outlast.
Studio
Old Town, Tbilisi
By appointment only
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