These are my first series of waveform jewelry made for an art exhibition.
“Waveform Series” consists of laser-cut shapes of various sounds, rendered in silver, gold or other precious metals and presented as wearable jewelry.
Human expressions such as yawn, sneeze, or giggle were used for this project.
All works are laser-cut and hand fabricated.
Yawn, Sneeze and Wow Brooch are in the museum collection at the Museum of Arts and Design NYC and are currently on view in the exhibition a Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection, 1947–2019 till April 16, 2023.
silver tinted with green oil paint, silver, oxidized silver
Installation view of the exhibition 45 Stories in Jewelry: 1947 to Now at the Museum of arts and Design NYC
In the exhibition context this project included a DVD player and a monitor: the audience could enjoy both the object and the actual video of sound wave played back.
I created silver neck piece, silver bracelet, silver and 18K gold rings with the sound waveform of a Jacques Prévert’s poem “Cet Amour (This Love)” read by French actress Jeanne Moreau for “Love Design” exhibition during 2009 Milan Salone Del Mobile.
“I Do” wedding band is a custom wedding band with sound waveform of couple's wedding bows or their choice of the words/phrases. It offers a unique opportunity to own a timeless representation of your partner's voice.
"Jewelry for Network Administrators" (2012) is a collaboration with the new media artist Marcin Ramocki. It consists of 12 wearable pieces of silver jewelry based on online diagrams of computer network topologies. It will be on display at Spazio Ultra (Udine, IT) until Jan. 19 2013. All pieces are available in small editions of 3.
Installation view at Gallery Ultra, Udine, Italy in collaboration with Marcin Ramocki, January 2013
This work was made for "#IMPACT: The Future is Inclusive" exhibition at Art and Design Gallery at Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC (February 12 - March 5, 2019).
I asked nine New Yorkers to say "I love you" in their native languages: Arabic, English, German, Hindu, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. I believe that this project represents the wonderful "melting pot" culture of New York which makes this city so special.
I hope to keep expanding this collection of recordings by adding more languages spoken in NYC.
18karat gold ring. The top part is made from an ATARI 1981 computer chip
tag-Jewelry-tag This is a physical representation of the HTML code needed to display a word "Jewelry" via internet browser. The tags were laser-cut out of sterling silver and connected as a necklace. Available in silver or 18K gold
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This piece is a conceptual pun on the “HEAD” tag in HTML. Wearer’s actual head is placed between “open” and “close” tags.
Available in silver and gold
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All possible ideas used for the work of art jewelry since the 60's are stamped (in some cases, it's divided into several beads).
Material: Silver
Dimension: Necklace form: 68cm (27insh) length
Beads: (various sizes): 14-27mm dia.
Year: 2006
Jewelmark Series (necklace+brooch, earrings)
Silhouette of traditional jewelry were hand-cut and connected, flexible to various shapes
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Material: Rubber sheet, sterling silver
Year: 2005
I used flags of 189 countries (member states of the United Nations in 2002) and made 42 brooches.
(In 2018, 193 countries are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries are non-member observer states)
This piece is in collection of Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
Material: flags of 189 countries, rhodium plating on sterling silver (structure) and copper (the back of the discs). Stainless steel (pin back).
Dimension: 5 different sizes and 3 different shapes. 6x5.7cm, 4.6x4.3cm, 4x4cn, 4.2x3.7cm, 6x4cm
Year: 2002
Material: military ribbons, silver / fabricated
Dimension: 5cm dia
Year: 2001
250gram is the average weight of human heart. We usually don’t think of the weight of our heart. Each ring has the same weight of a plants, an animal, a bird, a fish, or an insect. The wearer can experience the weight of each living thing on his/her finger as a ring. Adding the nine rings becomes 250g- the weight of a human heart.
Material: silver 950, framed photographic image
Year: 1999
