MENDED ? (2)
The overall concept of my project is highlighting or emphasizing imperfections, visualizing mends and seams as additive or an area to celebrate. I think anything suffering damage has potential to become more beautiful through mending and recreation – giving it new life. I wish the project to point to personal emotional perspectives of daily life, and thus engage with an audience through the act of mending – recreating one’s joy and pleasure at regaining a cherished object.
The relative lack of definition of contemporary jewellery is helpful for creative thinking – here in my project, artistic jewellery means non-pragmatic jewellery. The pieces are individual one - offs, not to be manufactured in series. With regards to a target group, I consider both jewellery collectors and other artists and persons who want to show their aesthetic taste through their use of jewellery.
The relative lack of definition of contemporary jewellery is helpful for creative thinking – here in my project, artistic jewellery means non-pragmatic jewellery. The pieces are individual one - offs, not to be manufactured in series. With regards to a target group, I consider both jewellery collectors and other artists and persons who want to show their aesthetic taste through their use of jewellery.
In my project I use the mending technique as means of constructing with elements - the inspiration coming from the traditional technique where the mending marks are being transferred into a decoration. In the experimentation process I focused sometimes on the material itself, getting removed from the aesthetics of the overall form, and at other times concentrated on the methods of connecting and attaching. Bringing these aspects together was essential and, looking back, this posed the biggest challenge - sticking to the main concept.
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