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Kohei Murata — Hikihaku: When Gold Becomes Light

There is a moment — standing in front of one of Kohei Murata's pieces — when the light shifts, and the surface transforms entirely. What was gold becomes silver. What was still becomes alive. No p...

Yuki Onizuka — The Machine That Learned to Make Jewelry

The machine Yuki Onizuka works with is one hundred years old. It was not designed for jewelry. It was designed for textile embroidery — for the decorative stitching that adorns kimonos and formal ...

moi.toi. — Gold, Silver, Indigo: A Jewelry Made from Light

There is a second body of work by moi.toi. that is worth understanding separately from her Washi paper jewelry — though the materials are related, and the sensibility is entirely consistent. These...