I honestly don’t know, I knew what is was. My initial
understanding of contemporary jewellery was jewellery that was addressing a
current issue, but it is a broad spectrum of definitions that is constantly in
a state of expansion and change. Expressing meaning and ideas whether worn or
not, sparking intrigue and question.
Sol LeWitt says “Conceptual artists are mystics rather than
rationalists they leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach” [1.]
I have found contemporary jewellery to be more a story,
being written as you go along. As much as I can think about where I’m headed I
never really know where I’m going, a vague idea “somewhere that way,” but I try
to embracing the uncertainty, try to think optimistically. Creating
contemporary work has become more about the journey rather than the
destination, being able to find the treasures within the journey, in other
words it’s not about the product but the process. It’s a lovely mixture of
faith, science, questioning and understanding.
I am quiet the lazy kind, to put it in intelligible terms, I
want to achieve maximum effect with minimal effort. I think a lot and read a
lot more than I physically do, but eventually I always start somewhere at some
point. Everything starts at a point, this is how the universe came into being: “There
was no heaven, no earth, and no universe – just empty space. In this vastness,
a single point manifested itself. From that point steam, smoke and mist spiraled
in a luminous sphere and the sacred sound Su was born.”[2] I feel like that
point in that emptiness but it is from this point that I hope to flourish.
1. Sol leWitt, "Sentences on conceptual art."(1969) Art language, Vol 1, no1
2. Morihei Ueshiba, "Art of peace"(2002)
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