Tutor: MS. LIN CHEUNG

Signs of life

Dates: 12. - 15.6.2006
Fee: 80 €
Number of participants: 12

If our jewellery could speak, what would it say?

We know jewellery to be a vehicle for personal expression; designed, made, and used to express artistic thought, status in society, belief, wealth, fashion trends, customs and rituals etc. But despite these different prior forms of ‘designed expression', all jewellery has in common a propensity for a secret life: the capacity to hold personal, unique meaning that ultimately defines the piece.

By wearing, owning and interacting with jewellery, we breathe life into it. We activate it and set it on a life-long journey to collect and absorb its surroundings – eventually becoming a unique piece even if it started out as one of a thousand other identical items.

In this workshop we will consider how a piece of jewellery becomes unique, the transition from anonymous object to unique personal belonging, how we define ‘unique', how meaning is attached and changed, how ‘value' is added and how these thoughts can be deliberately expressed into an ‘anonymous jewellery blank' to start it on its journey as a sign of life.