so young park explores the cycle of life

With two Masters degrees – an MFA in metals and jewelry from Kon-Kuk University in Korea and a second MFA in metals and jewelry from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York – So Young Park explores the cycle of life in an extensive collection of jewelry and sculpture.

Working mostly with silver and gold, she pierces the metal with hundreds of small beaded pins to add texture and movement and uses tiny concave circles to represent single cells, explaining that the work expresses “hope, desire and the power of life through organic plant forms that are artistically rendered in a simplistic, geometric and sophisticated manner.”

More at Aaron Faber where So Young Park’s jewelry will be part of next month’s exhibit, Working in Metal: Three Women.