Meet the Artist
Metalsmithing is a passion for Sookyung. She has worked in the field for the last 14 years: studying under goldsmiths, developing and teaching workshops, and owning her own small jewelry business. Her wearable artwork is highly intricate and held to the upmost standard of craft and quality.
Sookyung earned her Bachelor in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Illustration and Metalsmithing from Grand Valley State University under Renee Zettle-Sterling. She has taught a variety of classes since 2009, including a position as an Adjunct Professor at Grand Valley, private studios and the principle instructor at Studio JSD for the last 4 years. Currently continuing her exploration of personal and philosophical concepts of Identity, she also teaches and exhibits at her work at Studio JSD in Grand Haven Michigan.
Sookyung currently resides in West MI with her dog.
Piercing production work
“Types of Intelligence” illustration- pen &ink, watercolor 2006
Inspired by Nature
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Organic, soft, elegant
Sawing and Piercing
A piercing saw, also known as a jeweler's saw, is a type of saw commonly used in jewelry making on sheet metal. It is usually used on softer metals as the saw is delicate. Like a coping saw, a piercing saw holds the blade in tension in a metal frame.
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A traditional, time and labor intensive technique, it is a basic metalsmithing skill one either loves, or hates, but has to know.
Why would one dislike this technique?
The blades are 1/5 mm wide, flat, made of steel and under tension. Any quick movements and the blade will break.
This is a 45 minute time lapse of piercing a sheet of sterling silver with a Jeweler's Saw of a Sookyung Original Design. Each interior shape has a hole drilled in it so the blade can be threaded through and complete the cut without having to create a relief cut to the exterior just to remove the blade. This means between each new shape the blade must be re-threaded and re-tensioned.
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