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Eugenie Huang spent her childhood in the woods of North Carolina, playing with insects, doing math drills, and practicing the violin.  As an adult she spent a year in the middle of Ohio working in a firm while learning how to rebuild motorcycle parts and motors, between studying architecture at M.I.T and Columbia.  Her observations and experiences of biology, vectors, mechanisms, music, and her training as an architect have served to influence the objects, concepts and style that she refines into her jewelry for Deka Ray.

Designing without literal representation of iconic ornamental forms, Ms. Huang creates objects that are familiar but not precisely realistic.  Her work is otherworldly and technological in thought-process, yet imbued with the ambiance of natural environment as a tactile, material influence.  Inspired by Edwin Abbot's notion of humankind being the privileged inhabitants of “Spaceland”, Ms. Huang imagines she is reeling in glimpses of extra dimensions in her 3D manifestations.

Ms. Huang holds both bachelors and masters degrees in architecture and shares the NYC-based architectural practice Formactiv with close colleagues Ron Eng and Lissa So.  She has been making jewelry since childhood [her interest sparked at age 8 after reading a book about Alexander Calder] and apprenticed for conceptual jewel-smith atelier Trimetall in Cologne, Germany during the early 90's.   Ms. Huang also apprenticed with the late Jessica Rose, highly regarded and currently influential for her tectonic constructions of threaded, meandering beads and multiplied chains.

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thanks to mark, shirley, justin, bev, jon, ron, sid, stephanie
casey, erich, my parents, and lastly, most significantly, john

inspired by:
marion and andrew t huang
lewis carroll
zaha hadid
edna st vincent millay
miucci prada
consuelo castiglioni
alber elbaz
christopher kane
hussein chalayan
the knife
nikki lee
annie choi
agnes martin
glass candy
minilogue
new order
appalaichan folk art
mgmt
corbu
archigram
star wars
hr giger
moebius
king lear
hella jongerius
autodidactic electronic musicians
optimistic snobs
george bataille
music
single malt scotch
hayao miyazaki
marquis de sade
martin luther king
baragan
james turrell
h.r.giger
john selway
archigram
peter testa and devon weiser
ken russell
nara
george elliot and all the georges who were women
e.m. forster
jascha heifetz
dvorak