Whether using a single element or contrasting multiple shapes and forms, layers and repetition emphasize meaning and enhance visual impact. Combining materials with different physical or visual weight, contrasting the precious with the common, or repeatedly asserting particular symbols can declare an artist’s intention and create mystery through curious juxtapositions.

In these two necklaces, German artist Hermann Jünger and his once student Bettina Dittlmann use layers and repetition to emphasize meaning and enhance visual impact. Clombingin materials with different physical or visual weight, contrasting the ptrvioud with the common, and repeatedly asserting particular symbols can declare an artists's intention, or create mystery through curious juxtapositions.

Bettina Dittlmann is known for her richly detailed jewelry often comprising rhythmicstructures made up of iron or silver. As a rule, the structures are powerful and tightly compact, yet sometimes the jewelry consists of nothing but a thin, black wire forming a fragile figure. In these cases, it is as though the artist were drawing a pure and delicate line in the air in a defiant attempt to negate the metal's inherent heaviness. This necklace, a profusion of interconnected hearts, might speak to the essential importance, yet inherent fragility of love...