ANDY GUEVARA

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery
”The Living Trace”

Jeweler & Metalsmith Andy Guevara elevates the unseen beauty and sensory elements of once-appreciated objects. With a strong multidisciplinary background in graphic design, photography, ceramics, and illustration, Andy funnels his varied influences through a constant process of introspection, working with fragmented memetic memories derived from a lifelong experience of cataloging and producing digital “waste” - the forgotten imagery and encoded information of online cultures which remain to document their existence.

Andy graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025 with a bachelors in jewelry + metalsmithing, igniting a deep-seated passion for seeking the boundaries of adornment as a durational tool aimed at channeling sensory experiences directly through the body. This opportunity also introduced him to electroforming, a technique which Andy develops upon using a constant hybrid workflow. In his current practice, his process entails the investigation of techno through digital analysis and physical re-interpretation, dictating his work ethic akin to a laboratory researcher.

Before there was a vision, there was a sound. Before there was a face to your name, there was a beat. A repetitive, steady rhythm, a heartbeat, signaling the beginning of life, aligning each function of your body towards the need to follow a sustained rhythm. By their nature, techno and jewelry share an innately intertwined purpose aimed at targeting the activation of the bodily senses. Like jewelry, portable MP3 players and audio devices have developed as practical means of re-experiencing music on-the-go. To this extent, our physical response to danceable music like techno reverberates within the act of making and wearing adornment.

Both series of Super-Stoneware belong to an ongoing expanse of jewelry (entitled The Art of Supersampling) exploring and indexing the rhythmitizing qualities of techno music when translated through its actionable counterpart in metalsmithing & adornment. Like the movements of a live mixed set - song-to-song - , each series iterates upon an evolving index of graphics and patterns developed with the aid of customizable audio analysis tools. In doing so, these become objects of attunement, drawing the wearer and audience closer to our innermost desires to move and augment our bodies when we succumb and lose ourselves to the rhythm.