Anna Liu - USA
Anna Liu
Designer biography:
Anna Liu is a jewelry designer with a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and an MA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She approaches jewelry not simply as adornment, but as a medium for preserving memory and emotion. To Anna, jewelry carries a quiet permanence—a way to hold onto fleeting moments and the feelings they evoke. Influenced by the subtle textures and forms found in her surroundings, she views each piece as a bridge between past and present, a reflection of the landscapes and experiences that shape personal identity. For Anna, jewelry is a patient companion: enduring where memory may falter, offering a quiet path back to the places and emotions we hold most dear.
Collection concept: Mountain Identity: reminder for existence
Slopes, stairs, and distant mountain silhouettes—this was the rhythm of my early world, the quiet structure of the city I grew up in. Mountains stood silently on the edge of the Sichuan Basin, their outlines dissolving softly into the sky. They were never the center of attention, yet always there—unspoken but constant, etched deeply into memory. This is the image of home I carry with me: not loud, not monumental, but steady—shaping the way I see, feel, and create. In this collection, I work with reticulation, a fully hand-crafted technique where flame transforms metal into textured, organic surfaces. The unpredictable patterns reflect the randomness of nature—like erosion, like shifting rock—capturing both movement and stillness. Each piece holds the tactile essence of the landscape, abstracted into form. Jewelry, to me, is a vessel of memory. Mountain Identity is not a replica of a place, but a quiet return to it—a reminder of presence, origin, and emotional gravity that remains even as we move forward.
