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My Label, Role or Title: Physician, Jeweler, Webmaster and Community builder

My Work and My Mission: To serve the information needs of the worlds jewelers, to educate, make life easier, improve working conditions and facilitate sharing between goldsmiths globally. To improve access to information in order to improve the productivity, safety, skills and education of the jewelers, professionals and hobbyists who need information. To harness 'world-mind' regarding jewelers problems and issues.

My Website: A free access web site with the large content on jewelry, art jewelry, goldsmithing, tips, technical, business and ethical issues. The site has a mailing list (Orchid) addressing professional jeweler members worldwide. The 'group mind' of the mailing list has tackled gemology, business, technical, ethical and third world development problems specific to the field of metalwork and jewelry. The site has the highest daily visitor rate of any professional jewelers site in the world.

About Me: I began my professional life as a physician at The Belinson Medical Center in Israel. That I ended up designing jewelry in Bangkok is, in fact, not such a strange eventuality; medicine is hardly pure science - there is considerable artistic content to the profession of medicine and especially surgery.

Eventually, I elected to remove myself from the hospital environment. After traveling around the Southeast Asian area, I decided to settle in Thailand. Within this initial period in Thailand, I continued my interest in medicine by studying alternative medical treatments and methods. In addition, I applied myself to studying the Thai language and the attendant cultural context including Thai Buddhism.

As an aside to my studies, I continued my work in photography and jewelry making, essentially as hobbies. I became progressively more interested in jewelry and its relationship to the broad aspects it represents; and the interaction between design and the self-image of the wearer. Jewelry design and creation ultimately became the mainstay of my daily activities.

Unfortunately, I have never found sufficient merit in the reinterpretation of currently available designs - applying petty alterations to other designers work simply does not produce quality results - extraordinary designs require a genuine dedication to innovation and invention. I have worked in earnest to stray from the trite and the ordinary. Of course in the end, each finished work must achieve a sort of balance, a congruity of composition - it must make a respectable attempt to accommodate the raw clarity and balance of the human form. While on the other hand, jewelry and accessories should express the distinct and contradictory aspects of human experience. As such, I have strained to find the fragile conceptual balance between unexpected mediums and themes.

Many of the designs that I have developed have employed dissimilar mediums and unusual stone setting techniques. The challenge has been to harmonize elements and styles that have traditionally been viewed as being incompatible - the result has produced designs with smooth lines, but hard edges; designs that are unusual and fun, but unarguably elegant

My Passions: Art, Photography, Good wine and food, Collecting books and stand up comedies