Ji Hwang Portrait

Ji Hwang earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design in 1995 and continued to live in New York City until moving to Boston in 2001. Currently, she is the Jewelry Design Coordinator at Paragon Lake, Inc. where she employs computer aided design (CAD) technology to extend her craft in creating custom jewelry designs.

Her early designs depict aspects of urbanism using functional industrial elements such as pulleys, hooks and wheels. She describes this as "Function is Aesthetic". Despite such a cold source of inspiration, her pieces are very sensual as they move smoothly around the body and give the wearer a chance to individualize the piece by adjusting the length of the chain.

She began exploring another aspect of design when she started a family in the suburbs. Nature is the subject in her recent designs. To her, nature is subtle.  It is all around us.  But without a conscious effort to observe the beauty that nature holds, it quietly resides in the background, not calling attention upon itself.

Her work about nature tries to reveal nature’s subtle aesthetic, capturing the beauty of its form, the simplicity of its design, and the vitality of its colors without embellishment.  She often finds that by simplifying her work -- even simpler than the natural subject – she can best reflect the essence of nature.

Ji hopes that whoever wears her jewelry feels special with these “one of a kind” designs.

 
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