What is unique about the art of jewelry?
A. In other arts, the materials used are of little value or significance. Jewelers use materials of unique properties…the “noble” metals, gold, platinum, and silver, which do not rust, corrode or change: and a fantastic variety of natural stones from the earth’s crust. These stones have particular properties that have fascinated people for centuries: hardness, transparency, and brilliant colors, which hardly seem possible in nature. The materials themselves suggest and embody the quality of enduring beauty, especially in contrast to our own rather tenuous and impermanent life on earth.
