Hi Dani.
Now I am back. A quick business trip to London and now I am back with a dark blue thumb nail. But I needed that, I mean the trip.
I thought a little bit about our ideas and I very much like the rebirth by fire that you posted last week. There is something about fire that fascinates me, which at the same time is a very important part of jewellery and goldsmithing. But fire also makes me think about transformation, energy, the stepping from one form into another, death and cremation. The gray area that (experimental) jewellery finds itself in is also a platform for rebirth, I think, where traditions no longer fit and new ideas are continuously given birth to.
Recycling is another point. And even though I think that the word ‘recycling’ is somewhat cheesy and guilt-inspiring (if you don’t recycle), I have broken the word down into re and cycle and that lit up my mind. Everything happens in cycles, stages and steps. I feel that a lot what we have blogged about as to do with these things. I also feel that I am somehow at the end of one cycle now, and another is beginning. Again, relating this to jewellery, a lot of precious metals are recycled (I just sold some gold the other day because I needed money and I was also thinking about ancient Egypt, where grave robbers kept on taking the gold out of the tombs to resell it).
So these are only some overall concepts. No ideas yet, but I could begin some experiments based on this. The question is, do these ideas inspire you to work? Do you feel that you can/want to work with this?
