A contemporary goldsmith born in Fukuoka, Japan, Kaori Juzu studied jewelry making at Bornholm Folk High School in Denmark. In 2008, she completed an apprenticeship with goldsmith Per Suntum and started her own artistic practice in Bornholm. Juzu aspires to work solely for the sake of inspiration—before the mind begins to devour the joy of that inspiration—and she considers the creation of jewelry to be a completely open process. In this intensive process layers of colour are built up until such moment: like the moon gleaming on water – soft lifting, serene, subdued, yet strong enough to have inherited a life as well as a form.

She uses enamel to create pieces that are serene and subdued, yet strong enough to take on life as well as form. Each shape interacts with the space surrounding it, and in such a space each work starts to create new rhythms. She refers to this intensive process, which unfolds in a constant dialogue between hand, metal, and enamel, as ENAMELISM.

Kaori crafts by hand what she now calls‘klenodie’. This title is a Danish word for artefact, gem, jewel, or treasure, encapsulating her pieces under this wide spectrum. She uses a mixture of copper, silver, and gold depending on the idea at hand. The metal is carefully hammered and sculpted in to shape, after a mixture of enamels (powdered glass) are applied to the metal which react in the kiln at high temperature creating a unique colour pattern and surface texture. The result is a new and seductive expression within a beautiful harmony in the shape of jewellery. Juzu's work has been featured in both private and public collections that include Designmuseum Danmark, Koldinghus Museum, The Danish Art Foundation and The Cominelli Foundation.