Hey Dani.
What you wrote sounds interesting in several ways. I like how the jewel becomes embedded in something else (the way I see moments or experiences embedded in the layers that make up our lives). I also like how you have made the jewel inaccessible (I have always loved that about jewellery—in the way that it becomes non-jewellery or an object, blurring the lines between things and smudging them like a charcoal drawing). I could probably write a lot more here and I think I will stop (too much information is not necessary).
I have also been ‘thinking’ about what to make. I move in very small thought circles (reflection, fire, mirror, illusion, last piece, no more jewellery, what do I make?, mirror, reflection, maybe silk, transformation, silk, cocoon, phoenix, red thread, moth, silk, cycles, ending, beginning, jewellery…..just to give you some idea). This time is very strange. I am cleaning out things, my work area, old stuff, throwing bags and bags of old stuff away, taking old jewellery apart, really going into it, the dismantling of the last 10 years of my life to prepare for the new cycle that is starting now. And by going into the things I also manage to move into the energy within myself, cleansing and clearing, that is why I have to do this slowly (step by step, no rush), and it feels thick and heavy.
But I will make something and I still think that the points we came across are still very relevant. I am also keeping in mind your charcoal, the dirty-ness, the hidden because it would still be interesting for the work to complement each other, somehow connect. Up until now I thought about making a ceramic phoenix brooch connected to a mirror brooch (two brooches connected, one representing rebirth and the other reflection). Then I thought about burning old stuff and using that has a patination on a structure of a brooch, making the wearer dirty. And lastly I thought about taking a lot of small elements from the past 10 years and placing them together in a piece to represent the work cycle I am now ending (my only concern with this is that I think this piece might look ugly and I have a problem with that because I am probably too vain and my ego won’t allow it (so maybe I should try this!!!!)).
Have a lovely Sunday………B Y E
