Feyzal Baykut

Artist Statement

Making jewelry is my comfort zone, gives the feeling and opportunity to be unprejudiced and irregular. It’s my playground full of numerous ideas and chances waiting to come to light. I believe life is an experimental process. So, as in life, during my creative process, my trials may end with delusion but it may start or gives birth to something new. As I discovered my potential to create hidden within me I began to see the objects around me in a way to discover their hidden potential. And I started to transform the materials to different forms, textures, postures to expose their hidden values rather than using them as they are. Playing with materials I try to make them look like another material and observe a possible connection with the metal. A torn paper turns into a metal , a roll of thread may become a bulk of knot or a piece of fabric may look like plastic while a piece of plastic may look like porcelain. It’s pretty much interesting for me to see how they react to the creation process. Also I like to see the surprise effect on the faces of the audiences when they learn the original material.