Today, things appear and disappear very quickly without stating their identities in the change of times. While a trend is a way of expressing a particular age, some artists try to express their work in the stream of the craze of revival.
Owing to the effort of artists to combine tradition and modern sense, their works become the dominating culture in this age. Assuring that if we could combine the beautiful old tradition with modern sense, we could produce and create the best artistic work which can lead this age, I pursue most traditional things as the source of my work. So the main idea of this study is to examine various kinds of Changsalmun(Latticed Door's Pattern). This study tries to combine the shapes and patterns of Changsalmun with jewelry.
The design of Changsalmun is so plain and not delicate that it seems difficult to express luxurious jewelry. However, I simplify and restructure the shape of these patterns. As a result, I wish to show the possibilities of developing modern designs based on the formative principles such as senses of repetition, harmony and volume.
The patterns of Changsalmun help create bright color, peaceful unities, beautiful lines and profound senses of space, and they would match with the emotional qualities of modern people. This study may present a new field of jewelry design with the harmony of traditional beauty and modern sense. I try to develop our own design which has traditional Korean beauty without losing artistic identities of the modern era.