Noah Kiehne, born Feb 2003, lives in Windsor Connecticut.
Noah is a lifetime tinkerer and maker with a broad connection to nature. His life revolves around people, craft, skateboarding, and exploring. Noah has spent years rooting around the woods of CT discovering and collecting mineral specimens and gemstones that he incorporates in his art and jewelry.
Noah has a bachelors degree in Computer Aided Jewelry Design and Lapidary Craft from the School of Individualized Study at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Statement
As a jeweler and artisanal miner, I have a strong focus of inventing ways to include gemstones and mineral specimens in my art and jewelry. In my work I apply human contextualization to the profound inorganic structure of nature. I've spent hours searching for, safely extracting, gently cleaning, carefully cutting, and patiently polishing to bring out the wondrous qualities hidden within stone. Gemstones can represent all manner of things, but to me they represent the journey it takes to find them. I am constantly fascinated with their sheer beauty on all scales.
I make art for the modern explorer. For the dreamer, the searcher. For someone grounded in reality with astronomic imagination.
There is no set story. By posing aesthetic questions with technical excellency, I am nudging the audience towards the genesis of their own narrative.