Insights on Art and Design

Freeform Art Jewelry by PJ Valenciano 

The importance of beauty and art may not seem necessary when stacked up against basic needs and other practical matters. In modern times, we continue to be bombarded with poorly designed, mass-produced objects. It may seem like you’re getting a bargain from assembly-line products, but most of the time what you’re getting is a creation that’s deeply unloved. Unskilled workers, whose main purpose is to maximize output and profit, hastily put these things together. Extravagant prices come attached with the latest, high-end products until the moment the next “shiny new thing” comes along, and then you’re left with an empty feeling of wanting to “keep up”.

Dalisay Art Jewelry by PJ Valenciano 

“Design”, simply put, is thinking about how things look. A designed object is one whose makers worked long and hard to make it’s just right. Good design matters because it evokes emotions, which affects our mindset on how we view the world around us. Much like a dark, brooding sky evokes feelings of melancholy, or how a bright sunny day can brighten most of us up, objects around us permeate our senses and affects our outlook in life. Our environment and the things around us shape us to become better or worse versions of ourselves.

Egyptian Inspired Art Jewelry 

Depending on what’s in front of our eyes, we are quite literally different people. Beauty is promise of goodness, and though emotions and moods are impermanent, so too is the very nature of our existence. While we have the time, we should indulge our souls by surrounding it with people, places, objects, and ideas of true beauty, not in terms of the superfluous and expensive, but those embodying love, compassion, hope, and enlightenment.

Jewelry: PALAMUTISHOP.COM

Photography: Carlo Cayabyab

Keeping it real.- PJV