When Metal Dreamed of Paper - SEITARO YAMAZAKI

ARTWORK

When Metal Dreamed of Paper
2025

Silver

This jewelry series is born from refined metal—material that has lived a second life. Once discarded or forgotten, it is now reawakened—not merely polished, but re-imagined. At its origin lies a memory: a ring once crafted from paper, offered in innocence and hope.
It was a gesture too fragile for time, yet it lingered—quietly, inwardly.
Each piece in this collection draws from that longing— not only to adorn, but to carry the quiet beauty of things once left behind.
Things unused. Stories untold. Materials unloved.
Here, metal remembers the tenderness of paper.
And in doing so, it transforms. From waste into whisper, from matter into memory, from memory into form. These works do not merely shine; they speak.
Softly. Of another story. Of a different kind of permanence. Of beauty that is both light as paper, and enduring as metal.

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