Koh Heeseung, Order and Will, 2021
Jewelry artist Heeseung Koh collects images of the urban landscape and applies her observations of them to brooches, necklaces, and rings. The highly-sensitive and strict backdrop that is the human body defines the size, weight, and shape of the jewelry. For a jewelry artist, creation is the act of ascertaining the boundaries of the ornament's role and then broadening boundaries. Koh, who has worked on jewelry for 30 years, is especially known for her ring series. She has spent much of her career experimenting with diverse structural aspects of the finger hole, the most fundamental aspect of the finger hole, the most fundamental aspect of the ring, and revealing the texture of materials. In particular, Koh's rings are characterized by the traces from the making process and how it is enhanced over time by accumulating traces from wearing them.
