AMALGAM | FEATURED ARTIST — YUKA ISHIKAWA As part of our ongoing editorial series highlighting selected artists from AMALGAM: Contemporary Jewellery in Hybrid Systems, we introduce Yuka Ishikawa — a Japan-based contemporary jewellery artist whose practice explores impermanence, transformation and the quiet relationship between what changes and what endures. Self-taught since 2016, Yuka creates sculptural jewellery that exists between wearable object and contemporary art. Working primarily with silver, enamel and natural gemstones, she allows oxidation, cracking, chipping and other material changes to become part of each work rather than something to prevent. At the heart of her practice is a simple belief: nothing truly disappears. Weathered architecture, rusted metal, eroded surfaces, changing landscapes and the aging human body all inform a visual language in which transformation is understood not as decline, but as evidence that life continues. Yuka also challenges traditional j...