
JIYOON HYUN
She Studied art in South Korea and later in Spain, where he lives and works.
In both countries she studied contemporary jewelry. she likes the organised things and geometric, and the nature. she thoughts a lot about new material and how to compose organized thing with nature. When she was traveling in Bolivia, the Uyuni desert- salt desert, salt attracted her a lot as a new material, and now she's working with the salt.
Work statement or description
"A long time ago, salt was valued more than gold. Salt was like a money. But now we can buy salt anywhere and very cheap. But the salt is still very important ingredient for cooking. the idea started here. I want a give the value to salt again. For that reason i used salt as a gem. When you look at it deeply, it looks like a whit gem. And i like geometry. The shapes of my brooches represent a spotlight. The light is formed very freely depending on the holes that the light crosses. Therefore i interpreted the form by my tendency-geometric and the part of the light, l put the salt. "