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Materials: Sterling silver, anodized titanium, boulder opal
Dimensions: 1 1/2" x 2 1/4"

Pierced sterling overlay over anodized titanium in pierced silver pin/pendant set with boulder opal

Photo credit: Sanders Visual Images

Noel Yovovich
Evanston, IL. USA

noelyovovich.blogspot.com

I use an eclectic variety of techniques and materials in a jewelry style that draws heavily on imagery from nature, as well as my experience creating "Thematic Apperception Test" (TAT) drawings for the University of Chicago department of Human Development, while I was in graduate school in Art History (I abandoned the degree to DO art). These drawings contain situations of dynamic tension, but are so ambiguous that the viewer is drawn into supplying the details of the story. I was always intrigued by that notion, and am still creating work that is intended to do just that.

Much of the magic of my jewelry pieces comes from the exploration of the amazing properties of titanium, which can be colored with the use of heat and/or voltage. In my minutely detailed imagery, the titanium appears differently from different angles, giving it a sense of life and vitality that cannot be captured fully in a photograph.

I think of my jewelry as portable art, as personal expression for both myself and for the person who is drawn to own and to wear my pieces.


Materials: Sterling silver, anodized titanium, boulder opal
Dimensions: 1 1/2" x 2 1/4"

Pierced sterling overlay over anodized titanium in pierced silver pin/pendant set with boulder opal

Photo credit: Sanders Visual Images

Noel Yovovich
Evanston, IL. USA

noelyovovich.blogspot.com

I use an eclectic variety of techniques and materials in a jewelry style that draws heavily on imagery from nature, as well as my experience creating "Thematic Apperception Test" (TAT) drawings for the University of Chicago department of Human Development, while I was in graduate school in Art History (I abandoned the degree to DO art). These drawings contain situations of dynamic tension, but are so ambiguous that the viewer is drawn into supplying the details of the story. I was always intrigued by that notion, and am still creating work that is intended to do just that.

Much of the magic of my jewelry pieces comes from the exploration of the amazing properties of titanium, which can be colored with the use of heat and/or voltage. In my minutely detailed imagery, the titanium appears differently from different angles, giving it a sense of life and vitality that cannot be captured fully in a photograph.

I think of my jewelry as portable art, as personal expression for both myself and for the person who is drawn to own and to wear my pieces.


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