Defensive Mechanism

Marfo Glover,a graduate student at Miami, studies Jewelry and Metals Design with a minor in 3D Modeling. He explains that his artwork titled Defensive Mechanism is sculptural jewelry meant to evoke “protective sentiments, remain elegant, and convey a sense of both power to wearer and viewer.”

The piece of art is meant to sit on the wearer’s neck with the intention of both beauty and defense. Glover drew from his experience as a young Ghanian artist and borrowed from “both African traditional and contemporary aesthetic languages while entertaining cross-cultural influences of [his] lived experience.”