Featured designer: Jason Burruss - Cold-fusion jewelry design

 Jason Burruss, has been creating  jewelry for over half of his life. He has dedicated his waking hours to the creation of functional art in every way that he can.

From endless streams of rings, pendants, bracelets, talismans, finished necklaces, pins, and sculptures he has created an extensive portfolio of artworks, most customized to the person, often with symbolic and philosophical intentions. 

His lifetime has been dedicated to setting gemstones since his first gem cabs and beads at the early age of 14. 

Over the last decade, Jason has innovated his own form of cold-fusion metalwork and created a spectrum of designs from cultural and natural inspirations.

“I strive daily to create new designs and styles that never existed until I have conceptualized their lingering visionary image into form. 

Then, when the new perception and understanding of my own art is opened, I see there are so many doors beyond. One epiphany leads to ten, and every day I am driven to create. 

This is the role of the designer, to perpetually imagine new visions of artwork.”

The role of the jeweler is to create functional artworks that are esthetic and sentimental to the owner.

Jewelry is very personal in essence. It requires a trusting relationship between the buyer and the artist and is an often a personal experience. Jason’s higher end jewelry designs are deeply customized to the buyers, his talismanic works feature symbolic meaning, philosophical intention, and color psychology.

I actually prefer communicating and working through facebook and etsy. Years spent working on my previous website only helps me realize that these two social networking sites are wonderful tools for small business and artists. 

They help keep me in touch with my buyers and are efficient for my needs. I enjoy conversing with people from all walks of life and all cultural backgrounds and learning daily about the ideas, thoughts, and philosophies of humanity.

The most fun part of my wonderful job is being pushed to create new ideas of pieces that have never been created before, or recreating sacred and ancient symbolic forms in new and futuristic designs.

I find so much happiness in learning through the creation of a piece of art, thus I research and write philosophies for all of my pieces. Many of these pieces are inspired by the thoughts of the owner, in essence many of my artworks are much like commissioned artifacts.

JASON BURRUSS is a jeweler specializing in cold-fusion jewelry design. 

An adamant perfectionist, his dedication to the aesthetics of symmetry in design allows him to create his own form of designer jewelry. 

Working as a jewelry designer for 15 years, he experimented with several art mediums before he decided to become a full-time silver worker.

Now residing in Denver, CO, Jason pulls inspiration from the Universe around him which he uses to create Integral masterpieces of design. 

These designs are based not only on design and aesthetics, but inspired by the realizations of psychology and philosophy conceptualized from the meditative process of a disciplined creative process.

Jason draws inspiration from the geometry and colors of the world around him, natural occurrences in which he believes define his purpose, and life changes created by the evolution of his own conscious being. 

His larger pieces are created with written philosophy of the conscious understanding which caused these pieces to become manifested within his natural reality. 

Jason believes that his true Universal Purpose is to inspire the evolution of humanity through the evolutionary process of self. Creating desire to evolve, he believes is the key to perpetual happiness.

Jason seeks to inspire all to become their true self. To create a culture based upon small business and freedom through creativity of self-expression. 

This is his purpose, of which he writes philosophy and creates art in order to symbolize his philosophies of psychological and philosophical conscious awareness. 

"True happiness is attained from the perfection of one's own self. Follow your own passions and create your own path for this is the purpose of your beautiful life. 

Everyone is destined for greatness, no one can deny you this path but yourself. 

Know your truth, follow your path, perfect your being and you will discover true happiness. 

For you are a rose in a garden of shrubs, what makes you different is what makes you beautiful." 

Text and photos: Jason Burruss, models: Velocity, Sarah Berry