BEAUTY: Jewelry AND Art--Seulgi Kwon

South Korean jewelry designer Seulgi Kwon makes jewelry as wearable sculpture. Her amazing pieces made of silicone, pigment, thread, plastic, brass, glass, stainless steel, feathers, and pearls are fascinating studies of shapes and textures of the natural world. Her necklaces, brooches, and rings look like fungi, seed pods ready to burst, close-up views of bacteria and viruses, or oceanic plants and creatures. They are mesmerizing--so much so that after I saw photos of her work, I actually dreamed that night about clear, bulbous shapes...

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