HOW TO BEAD A ROGUE ELEPHANT The Musings Of A Jewelry Designer: Desire

Jewelry brings our desires into existence.

The jewelry designer collaborates with assumptions, expectations, values and perceptions the universe presents us with to make good things happen.

Jewelry design is not about making money off of people’s hopes and dreams. It is about creating a story-telling vehicle which triggers a self-realization or self-actualization among both designer and client. Triggers this, whether that story follows a road map, or more likely follows an iterative, back and forth process involving a lot of communication between designer and client (real or abstract).

Jewelry creates a type of foil: You look at the piece and ask yourself Who would I be without it?

Jewelry entices one to wear or purchase, by continuing to foster questioning:

Is what I think is true?

If true, how likely is that to happen?

If likely to happen, how important is this to me?

How You Are Reflected Back In Your Own Work

A piece of jewelry, so designed, is an object of beauty and functionality. But it is more than that. Jewelry is a unique form of artistic expression. It is not stationary as if hung like a painting in a museum. It has a different type of relationship with the wearer or viewer. It is meant to be worn on the body. It moves with the person. It…