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Life Secrets at the Laundromat

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Evolve Love Rings are all about your story.

Everything that Robert creates has a story behind it, a deeper meaning. Sometimes his jewellery tells the story of the Australian seasons and other times it expresses the dynamic story of a relationship, poem or song. While I am not a jewellery desginer I am on the lookout for stories wherever I go, its in my nature and it’s what Robert and I have in common. I make it a personal policy to talk to strangers in buses, parks, restaurants, and grocery stores. Not in that freaky way, but everyone has a story, and usually its more interesting ones than found in glossy magazines. Over the years I’ve discovered that the stories people tell can almost always be tied back to evolutions: endings, beginnings, shifts, and changes.

Take Steve the security guard for example. I met him at the local laundromat last week. He’s a giant man with an unexpectedly gentle spirit and a slight stutter. For the last nine years he’s worked the night shift in some of the roughest suburbs in this city. He tells me this after offering to help me fold my sheets.

“I bet you’ve seen a lot,” I say.

“I have,” he replies, “but I’ve learned to walk into every situation with friendliness and people can pick up on that, which saves me a lot of trouble. I never thought I’d be a security guard, though.”

“What did you think you were going to be when you were younger?” I ask. He pauses and gets a shy grin on his face,“I thought I was going to be a producer.”

“You want to make music, right?”

“Yeah. And maybe I still will. You never know.”

“I think a lot of people end up in places they never would have guessed,” I say.

He looks up at the ceiling thoughtfully, “Yes, that’s true. And it depends on what the man up there has in mind for you. You never know what’s going to happen.”

Steve is right: you never know what turns your life is going to take next. The idea of personal evolution is the central idea behind the new “Evolve Love Ring” collection. The Love rings are designed to evolve as changes occur in your life. Whether it’s something as simple as a shift in mood or something more significant like a move to a new city or the start of a new relationship–you can mix, match, and stack the rings to express your experience. Take a look at the 56420 ways you can show your evolution.

 

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Clara is the resident wordsmith for Robert Young Sculpture and when she isn’t folding laundry she can often be found waxing philosophical on the artistic processes of jewellery making.

An Unexpected Journey from Photography to Love Rings

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With the release of the new Evolve Love Ring collection we find ourselves contemplating the idea of personal evolution. What does it look like? Can we trace the moments and events that lead to change in our daily lives? We thought it would be interesting to take a tour through the evolutions that led to the existence of Robert Young Sculpture as you know it today. Life is constantly evolving, growing and changing, sometimes it comes in gradual waves and sometimes it happens all at once in sudden bursts. How many people end up exactly where they predicted they would?

It’s safe to say that Robert Young never envisioned himself as a Sydney jewellery designer or even making a collection so customiasble as the “Evolve Love Rings“. He found himself in a jewellery studio after decades of work in the worlds of photography and sculpture. Still, Robert has always found himself shifting physical matter into new arrangements. He started sculpting birds when he was seven and later, as a teenager, he carved faces in wood. At that point he didn’t even realize he was sculpting, it was just what he did. Robert eventually gravitated towards photography, but even there he often found himself more intrigued by the objects he was photographing rather than the photograph itself. An object asks the viewer to fill in all the blanks, to create a story about who, what, when, where, why, and how. Curiosity about these questions led Robert to a long career in sculpture.

For Robert, the next stage of evolution, from sculpture to jewellery, was a natural one. The transition signified an important move from dark to light in his life. Although he was a foreigner to expensive jewellery and diamond rings, he knew how to translate a story, his stories or a customers story into art. The medium changed, but his philosophy remained focused on meaning and expression. Robert has never been a pure craftsman intent on creating a “beautiful” piece. Beauty is present in all of his work, but it’s always an extension of a greater story or idea. This is especially true of the pieces in the new Evolve collection which are intended to transform and shift along with the wearer.

Sydney Jewellery Designer - Robert Young

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s Robert in his Sydney, Australia studio. Happy, content at his bench…. and whats his next expression piece ? unknown !

Express Your Life, New Evolve Love Rings Collection

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love ring by sydney jewellery designerRobert Young Sculpture is always in the process of evolving–new designs, new stories, and new ideas. In keeping with this theme we’re very excited to announce a new collection of rings called “Evolve Love Rings.” This is a special collection with a lot of depth and significance to it. When was the last time you came across a ring that can tell a story 56,420 different ways?

The 56,420 custom ring choices, including wedding rings and engagement rings, give you the freedom to design jewellery that truly reflects your individual experience, taste, and mood. The Evolve Collection can be rearranged, added to and changed as your life experience shifts and transforms. While each ring is different, a laser-cut “love” inscription is engraved in exactly the same position on every piece. You can see “love” all the way through a stack of Evolve rings.

The poet Carl Sandburg once said, “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” His words perfectly describe the way the Evolve Collection came into being. Robert originally named the collection “Lust for Life.” The unexpected came into play when he first previewed the collection to a woman who immediately proceeded to grab a stack of rings and order them in a way that was meaningful to her: round with flat, thick with thin, stones and no stones, copper alongside gold. The way she arranged the rings said something unique about her own personal life and evolution. After Robert expressed some hesitancy about the original name of the collection, she suggested that he change the name to “Evolving with a Lust for Life.” From there the name transformed to the simple but powerful, “Evolve.”

Evolve has more to it than a collection of customizable rings — that would be too easy, and it’s already been done. Everyone has seen the charm bracelets where you buy a chain and add charms from different shops. Although they claim to tell a love story, the story is really just, “I bought this charm at the mall.” It’s all marketing dross and no depth. With Evolve, your story is an integral part of the creation of each ring. That’s just how it works at Robert Young Sculpture.

Robert Young believes that everyone should be able to wear jewellery that is meaningful and reflects the uniqueness of the wearer. The Evolve Collection is intended to be accessible to everyone. You can mix and match copper, silver, yellow gold, and white gold; choose between 1.2 and 2.4mm band thickness; combine round shapes with square; and play with both different types of stones and their placement on the rings. Create a set of rings that really tells your story, or start with just one and add others to it as you evolve over time. It’s up to you.