Each piece looks like it’s been saved from been completely melted down in another workshop. There is a contrast in metal thickness in all of the pieces and the pieces all show a sense of brittleness in between every piece. It takes a lot of skill to bend up the metal in that type of way. The pieces of metal look as if they have just been soldered together to get the look of roughness and an unfinished look. There is also a contrast in metal width and this is where i get the feeling that he wanted to play with that, that and the metal thickness. As far as i can tell, there is also an unfinished texture on the metal, as if it was just sanded and left like that. There is no high- polished finish that we are used to in the jewellery world. Perhaps the aim of his pieces is to show that not all jewellery has to have a high polished finish to be absolutely beautiful.
The similarities between the middle image and the bottom image are so close together than all three. The bottom two images are more deformed in the way the metal is bent than the first image and throughout all pieces, silver is used, to be more exact, sterling silver is used. Also, Oscar shows that a piece of jewellery does not have to have perfect geometric lines to be beautiful and that a scrap piece of metal can also be made into jewellery and can be beautiful. His designs are truly unique and no other designer would even think of those designs.
His first design is also more conserved than the other two pieces. In his last two pieces, he shows more emotion, like frustration and anger soldered together. He clearly had to clear his mind and thus, his designs show his process in creating the jewellery pieces we see today.
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