Yejin Lee

This collection explores how jewellery can capture inner resilience—through personal reflection, spiritual struggle, and emotional healing.

Rooted in the act of prayer, each piece is a visual response to emotional states such as desperation, hope, and calm. Inspired by moments of kneeling, yearning, and whispering to the unseen, the works translate intangible feelings into wearable forms.

Using clear resin, brass, and digital modelling, light is refracted and cast into gothic silhouettes—symbolizing how hardship, like darkness, allows light to be seen. The use of UV resin enhances this effect, allowing the pieces to scatter light and create luminous reflections on surrounding surfaces. Chains, beadwork, and layering techniques add a sense of delicacy while maintaining structural balance. The materiality is carefully considered—brass provides weight and warmth, while clear resin adds fragility and radiance. Each element was hand-finished, polished, and assembled to reflect both vulnerability and strength.

These pieces are not just decorative—they are relics of survival, spiritual intimacy, and self-expression.

This is a story of vulnerability, growth, and the beauty that emerges from pain.