Jang Gothmos founded Gothmos in Seoul, South Korea in 2013. He is a self-taught jewelry designer, specializing in silver and precious gemstones. His practice centers on metalwork as a setting for emotional introspection, treating his pieces as a channel of vulnerability and candor. Thus, the designs revolve around intentional imperfection. Many Gothmos pieces have cracks, absences, or negative space. They’re purposefully imperfect, meant to communicate a degree of honesty. His work operates in tension between the industrial and the romantic, embracing raw materiality while preserving the jewelry’s traditional role as a bearer of personal significance.