One Key Jewelry is Oscar Kline (OK, my brand). One Key Jewelry is my path of growth and creation. I started in a garage using borrowed hammers and dull drill bits, worn sandpaper from my dad’s tool box; the cheapest jewelry tools I could find. From there I built my craft. I worked at AI Studios, until I realized I needed to leave my hometown and build my own space. I moved North to Moscow, Idaho, and built out a private studio deep within a plum grove to keep up with demand, and expand. I research the most effective tools for my trade, and invest in my work. Learning is an individual and communal practice. I do bench work for Gem State Crystals, where I am trained in lapidary, repair, and stone setting. I spend the day working in the shop with fellow creatives, and my nights in the studio.
My jewelry represents the three elements bound into one; Water and Earth bound by Air. Silver has no solid form, it is malleable, it fills the void in much the same way as water. I carve stone and gems into final shapes, rigid and unmoving, mimicking their natural creation, and the systems of Earth’s movement. With my torch, I attach, detach, melt, form and deform. The torch, which combines oxygen and combustants, is air.
One Key Jewelry speaks for itself.