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There is no question that Daniel Brush is one of the most unconventional and extraordinary jewelers of the 20th & 21st century. In 1998, he was honored with a thirty year retrospective exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution and an impressive monograph was published to reveal the oeuvre of this modern master.
To enter his world one needs not only to prepare your eye but more importantly your mind. To stand in awe of an extraordinary object is one of the world's great pleasures but to understand it's journey and to be part of it's conception is another experience and it is this that Daniel Brush expects you to be a part of.
His motives are unrepentant and the objects supremely arrogant, the work is alchemy of raw power and uncharted design with a veneer of softness and gentility that is as shocking as it is beguiling.
"Orb" is an existential being that is as calm and serene as it is powerful. The sphere, that is blended of pure gold with a steel that is arguably even rarer, creates an object that appears to live and communicate with anyone it makes contact with.
Brush's inspirations are a blend of ancient classical history combined with the spiritual culture of Japan. The Art of Technique is challenged yet respected and raw power is needed to create an object of calm. Immense physical energy goes into the making, like a blacksmith, like a boxer, like a Zen Buddha.
Daniel Brush insists he is not a jeweler and his work is not for "a bijoux set." The Danish physicist Niels Bohr said of quantum mechanics, "Anyone who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it", perhaps the same can be said about Daniel Brush.
A CONTEMPLATIVE OBJECT
"ORB", BY DANIEL BRUSH
Details
A CONTEMPLATIVE OBJECT
"ORB", BY DANIEL BRUSH
The sculpted steel sphere carved with asymmetric indented panels, each panel with a pure gold overlay and open steel borders, in a fitted case, 4 ins.
By Daniel Brush
"ORB", BY DANIEL BRUSH
The sculpted steel sphere carved with asymmetric indented panels, each panel with a pure gold overlay and open steel borders, in a fitted case, 4 ins.
By Daniel Brush
Literature
"Daniel Brush: Gold Without Boundaries", Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1998, p. 142-143