Mining for gold, silver, diamonds, gemstones, and other metals can result in water pollution, greenhouse gas emission, and soil erosion.
Dr. Doug Guthrie, dean of International Business and Management at the George Washington University School of Business, and a team of researchers compiled a report in 2010, titled “The Environmental Impact of Mining Precious Metals and Gemstones: The Case for Putting Jewelry Back Into Circulation.”
Guthrie explored the use of toxic chemicals in mining. Cyanide is used to separate gold from ore, for example. His report states that 20 tons of waste are produced for every ounce of gold. An average large-scale gold mine uses 1,900 tons of cyanide annually. Arsenic and other chemicals are used in mining other materials.
The waste can contaminate bodies of water, soil, and the air around mines, though the cyanide solution is used in a low concentration.
Two E Minus focuses on eco-friendly jewelry, handcrafted and unique artistic pieces.
The design mission is to make artistic elegence that celebrate the feminine figure. The design process starts with us thinking about what we really want to keep right now. We grow the most beautiful and sustainable metal possible to bring those designs to life.
TWO E MINUS focused on the balance between nature and industrial. Aiming to capture the new perceptions through creative technology and create a sustainable and aesthetic methodology, TWO E MINUS transit the beauty and explore the philosophy from nature and mind. Everything in our world exists in its own borderless continuity of life. Everything that exists has never gone, they switch forms, from fragile to tenacious, brief to eternity.
TWO E MINUS create a sustainable and aesthetic methodology to convert industrial leftover and waste into art and jewelry. Every piece of our art and jewelry is unique, and the only one in the world contains the beauty and power of existing and reincarnation.
The power that is reborn in the ruins, the strength shown in the natural or organic combination, is like the earth, like hope, continuing temperature and balance. We instinctively explore more sustainable materials and techniques in the creative process. In the combination of natural or organic species, seek the balance of beauty, texture, sustainability, and gentleness.
In our eyes, everything that every existent has its own beauty. The circle of life is a reincarnation, nothing should be gone, they have just changed a form and be there in a different way.
]]>TWO E MINUS is an art creative group based in San Francisco and collaborative by artists and designers.
Two E Minus’s design mission is to make artistic elegence that celebrate the feminine figure. The design process starts with us thinking about what we really want to keep right now. We grow the most beautiful and sustainable metal possible to bring those designs to life.
TWO E MINUS focused on the balance between nature and industrial. Aiming to capture the new perceptions through creative technology and create a sustainable and aesthetic methodology, TWO E MINUS transit the beauty and explore the philosophy from nature and mind. Everything in our world exists in its own borderless continuity of life. Everything that exists has never gone, they switch forms, from fragile to tenacious, brief to eternity.
TWO E MINUS create a sustainable and aesthetic methodology to convert industrial leftover and waste into art and jewelry. Every piece of our art and jewelry is unique, and the only one in the world contains the beauty and power of existing and reincarnation.
Beauty and essence, nature and man-made, existence and demise. It is an eternal theme pursued by artists and philosophers.
When we observing the world through a grain of sand, we can see the ever-changing things, and the various forms and beauty derived from it.
Within this thinking of material, art, and creation, we slowly increased the methodology of reincarnation art from zero to two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional, and finally returned to the original state, to express and trigger the resonance.
This unique, sustainable art jewelry that hands made in San Francisco.
Each piece is different due to the organic nature of metal growth and handcraft.
Organic material, ZERO pollution, ZERO waste.
"Coral of the Sea" is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.
Each of our cooper crystals was grown organically and in its own unique shape. It's the one and the only one.
Ocean, Love, Coral, Pearl and the mineral. This design is made as a tribute to our deep love for the ocean, nature and love itself. Reflect on the challenge we are facing, climate changes, dying corals reefs, and their ongoing process...
A very unique design with Coral-like Copper Crystal. Match with Fresh Water Pearl.
Handcrafted with Freshwater Pearls and Sustainable Grow Copper Crystal Sterling Silver.
Different from other mainstream Jewelry brand such as Pandora or H&M even Tiffany, 2eminus dose not use mass production nor pollution manufacture process to make the jewelry.
It's 100% handmade and 100% unique.
Zero waste, Zero pollution, and 1000% sustainable.
Two E Minus’s design mission is to make artistic elegence that celebrate the feminine figure. The design process starts with us thinking about what we really want to keep right now. We grow the most beautiful and sustainable metal possible to bring those designs to life.
TWO E MINUS’s work was exhibited at the Art Hill Gallery, London; VR exhibition at Mozilla Hubs; Art Fair of California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
TWO E MINUS (2eminus) is a creative art group based in San Francisco that collaborative by artists and designers. It focused on the balance between nature and industrial.Aiming to capture the new perceptions through creative technology and create a sustainable and aesthetic methodology, TWO E MINUS transit the beauty and explore the philosophy from nature and mind.
Collection “Existence”
This collection is called “Existence”; create by Wendy Di Wang, our creative designer and digital artist. It is inspired by the experience of our life in the contemporary industrial age and the awe of life.
Everything in our world exists in its own borderless continuity of life. Everything that exists has never gone. They switch forms, from fragile to tenacious, brief to eternity.
We finished this art collection at our own studio in San Francisco in 2020. In the last ten years, we experienced the blooming of the technology industry, and that brings all types of development in this city, in this county, and this world. New buildings have been built every day; the new product has been manufactured every day. Fast consumption has brought a lot of waste and environmental pollution.
Fast consumption has brought a lot of waste and environmental pollution. While enjoying the advantages of the industrial revolution, we are also taking on the artistic scrubbing of large quantities of single products.
In February 2020, COVID 19 started to spread in the city. Nine months later, it still did not stop. We observe the craziness, the sadness, and also the love and kindness. As artists and designers, we instinctively embrace the protection of life and form in the creative process with an extremely gentle and respectful attitude. We go to recycle all kinds of materials abandoned in the industrial age, to explore sustainable crafts, and transform it into a beautiful existence.
The power that is reborn in ruins, the strength shown in the natural or organic combination, is like the earth, like hope, continuing temperature, and balance. We instinctively explore more sustainable materials and techniques in the creative process. In the combination of natural or organic species, seek the balance of beauty, texture, sustainability, and gentleness.
In our eyes, everything that every existent has its own beauty. The circle of life is reincarnation, and nothing should be gone. They have just changed a form and are there in a different way.
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