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When Michael Good designs a piece
of jewelry, his goal is to make a piece that is part of the
wearer's everyday life. His iconic designs incorporate line,
volume, space and movement into a seemingly simple earring, pendant
or bracelet.
His sculptures and jewelry are
produced by a technique called "Anticlastic
raising" which allows
him to make pieces that are light and flexible and incredibly fluid.
One writer described the jewelry as "liquid caught in the act of
being gold." Michael Good is primarily self-taught
as an artist. He was taught elementary jewelry-making
techniques by a sculptor for whom he worked in NYC. For the
next ten years, Good made jewelry by invention, experimentation and
books. In 1980 he met Heikki Seppa and was exposed to a new
metalsmithing vocabulary, which opened a completely new direction.
Michael's work since then has been an exploration of form with
direct metal techniques, especially employing anticlastic
raising, which he developed based on the work of Heikki
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