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Photo: Panu Jauhiainen

Competition, a symbol of the times and an element motivating human behaviour. Starting from childhood, a human being is taught to compete and achieve in almost all areas of life. Man has the tendency of arranging things based on seeming superiority; gold is most valuable, silver comes next and then bronze. The fast eat the slow. Man has manufactured monetary inequality for different metals.
My degree show was exhibited at Gallery Johan S. June 10th-July 10th 2005 and at Galleria Atski December 7th-16th 2005. Using a layered metal technique called Mokume-gane, the jewellery I made has different metals layered in the same piece of jewellery. Gold, silver, bronze, brass and copper work as a whole and no one thing is more valuable than the other. There are no winners and losers. Sports medals found on flea-markets have been used as tools for the jewellery, giving the medals a new function.

I graduated from the Institute of Design at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 1999, specialising in jewellery and object design. Since then I have worked as a self-employed designer, producing commissioned work and small jewellery collections. Up to 2005 I worked with Union Design goldsmiths, currently I work in Studiopaja. I began my MA studies at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2001.
Jewellery is my medium. It is perfectly suited to express my ideas and the things that I am interested in. Jewellery is intimately connected to life, to the body and the mind.

Contact:
kvuorine(at)uiah.fi
+358 40 715 4067