George Sawyer's patterned metalwork is an interpretation of Mokume, an ancient Japanese wordsmith’s technique in which two colors of steel were folded into a swirling mass of bends and curls. A blade forged from this complicated billet was of unsurpassed strength and exhibited a beautiful, wood grain-like surface. Using this technique, George Sawyer forges billets of colored golds into unique pieces of sculptural metalwork, each a study in pattern and color, miniature paintings in gold.