Week 7

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“Played out on the global stage, the history of ornament is a many-faceted drama of creation and renewal, remembering and forgetting.” (Trilling,104)

“Artists (Paleolithic) did not make their own media, but accepted what nature gave to them…the creative process began with found materials.” (Trilling, 93)

“We live in worlds of the mind, in which the material and the mental, as well as the experienced, remembered  and imagined, completely fuse into each other” (Pallasmaa, 127)

“Does thought lie in the interaction between brains, bodies and objects in the world, or in the correspondence of material flows and sensory awareness wherein consciousness to recall the words of Deluze and Guattari, is the ‘thought of the matter-flow’ and material the ‘correlate of this consciousness’…?” (Ingold, 98)

“Humans and their and their artifacts grow organically into large complex systems characterized by cycles of growth, blooming and dying off…There is no plan behind it all. These are natural processes.” (Gast, 67)

I have ideas for my jewelry design. I want to make a necklace with a wood long centerpiece that I carve either a pictorial story or sanskrit letters across. I also want to make more beads out of paper, of written text that I value and love. I want the beads to hang off the necklace in a way that you can unwrap the beads and be able to read the text.I want this piece to actually tell a story, concept or idea. I connect this with ornament being a “global stage…many-faceted drama of creation and renewal” (quoted and cited above). 

I want my jewelry to literally speak to the audience, to make the cognitive connection between ornament and language. This piece would be wearable as well as readable, and plays with the boundaries between accessories, gathering information and communication. I haven’t found anything quite like this online, and am starting to draw sketches. I have not decided want I want my jewelry to say, but I may go to a used book store, or thrown out magazine for inspiration.

I am very inspired by the Egyptian style of jewelry, especially for the wood centerpiece. I think the the pictorial forms and symbols in Egyptian art communicates powerfully.