SMCK MAGAZINE #2 -Rebel

The jewelry artist's million-dollar question is: how can I be both critical and sustainable, challenging and pleasing, approachable and rebellious?

Jewelry art should be judged by the same standards that apply to visual art. Contemporary art can be cynical, aggressive, vulgar, depressing, disturbing. To survive, you need people to like, buy, and wear your art. Jewelry's potential to change the viewer's perspective unfolds through the trinity of the Maker, the Buyer, and the Beholder, that is, the public eye.

CONTENTS:

The basics of peace • A subsidy to destroy cultural heritage • Luxury in Berlin • Faith is part of being human • Ethics before aesthetics • SCRATCHPAPER Paris • Healing dreams in God's forest • No art without customers • I do what I really want • Jewelry and The City: Bogotá • And more...

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