Polymer Outshining Precious Metal

Polymer is not an expensive material but that doesn’t mean it can’t look more precious than it’s expensive competition. The mokume surface on this pendant by Spain’s Anna Belchi gives one the impression that the material is some rare and costly stone or complex and highly valued enamel process … something more than manipulated, pigmented plastic.

Perhaps it’s because Anna works with precious metals as well as glass and polymer clay that her approach results in a carefully crafted and impeccably finished piece where the polymer is being considered as valuable as the rest of her materials.