In the beginning, there is the material: porcelain, which requires, and allows, specific handling because it is not hard but soft. When it is liquid it can be casted in forms; when it is a little harder it can be modeled, squeezed, rolled and pressed, allowing the artist to create delicate surface textures that make each piece unique. Countless porcelain elements come together in Pfefferkorn’s pieces—they are complete only in a group. When they move, the individual parts produce soft sounds, and each jewelry piece, depending on the arrangement and shape of its single parts, has its own voice. In its basic composition porcelain is white and appears very pure, but also cold—Pfefferkorn therefore uses pigments to vary the colors, juxtaposing vivid tones against virginal white. These porcelain jewels are both beautiful and very easy to wear, for they assume the body’s temperature without getting uncomfortably hot.
