Jewelry Inspiration: Chicago Designer Loves Massive Scale Necklaces

Klimt02 is a website that provides an international forum for contemporary jewelry in a creative space that offers knowledge, information, debates, and exchanges - all within the artistic realm of jewelry. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Kilmt02 inspires everyone interested in the selection, quality, art, technology, and creation of art jewelry. Sheffield School has kindly been given permission to share works of global designers here on our website. Today's post focuses on a jewelry designer from Chicago, IL, Heejin Hwang, who crafts very large-scale necklaces that will surprise, intrigue, and inspire you. So often, we stick with the scale of most jewelry pieces - but why? Why not shift into a larger scale?

Heejin Hwang

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Connection 2010
Steel, enamel, ground rock
93 x 45 x 10 cm

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Connection 2010
Steel, enamel, ground rock
93 x 45 x 10 cm
Photograph: Jim Escalante

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Connection 2010
Steel, enamel, ground rock
18 x 18 x 4 cm
Photograph: Jim Escalante

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Sensation 2012
Steel wire
30 x 120 x 30 cm

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Dropping I 2011
Steel wire
30 x 100 x 30 cm

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Dropping III 2011
Steel wire
30 x 70 x 15 cm

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Sensuality II 2011
Steel wire
30 x 35 x 10 cm

Heejin Hwang
Necklace: Sensuality II 2011
Steel wire
30 x 35 x 10 cm

Statement

My work is about the tension between structure and sensuality. I am interested in framing female identity through the lens of beauty, control, dignity, strength, and vulnerability. By building simple structural units into complex sculptural forms, organic shapes give way to fortified architectural systems. Steel wire is used as basic material, and a continuous line of wire is shaped into interpenetrating forms. As multiple units complete a perfect structure, the whole becomes animated and my jewelry comes to life.  The human body is the perfect context for my three-dimensional forms. Only when the body ornaments are perfectly installed on the wearer, does an emotional and structural rapport begin. As people imagine building an ideal house of their own, I also imagine building my house of jewelry on the human body.   - Heejin Hwang   website: www.heejinhwang.com mail: heejinhwang6@gmail.com

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For me this massive scale structure are really gorgeous. It really defines women beauty and potential in Fashion world