Perceptions of Jewellery

 

My Perception of Jewellery is that it has to be worn and attached to the body,but not necessarily that it has to be of limited materials like people often associate it mostly of gold,silver an diamonds.as it shows social status of wealth. i would wear this bangle as i find the colours interesting and if you were toput it on a table youd think its stappled prolypropylene. and its expensive because it ranges from 50 to 250 Pounds which in Rands would be costly.this jewellery is made by

http://www.lovedazzle.com/shop/GillForsbrook1.aspx  found in lovedazzle.

Polypropylene and silver staples

My Final Piece

My final piece as we were inspired by the circus has a lot of detail and busy just like in the circus to give off the same feeling. I was interested by the acrobatics and that's where my inspiration came from. The design changed originally from what I had drawn but as you manufacture there's a lot of change that occurs. The project in its self did challenge me as to be careful of how I work and not be careless but the last few days before submission i was not as stressed as I saw the piece coming together as to stressing on how I was gonna assemble it .I'm  glad it eventually came to pass as a jeweller I've inquired certain skills.

Close up of finished final piece

Final Piece

Element of the piece with  close up detail

The unfinished but soldered piece

The Design Process

Designing took me a whole week trying to figure out my final design. After I researched  on the internet about cannatile and filagree pieces I came across an interesting pieces of pearl settings and wire work.that is where i finally got inspired and gave me ideas to inspire my design.

The final design idea on paper

the design process playing with elements and pattern

My Re-feral picture I got my elements shape

Circus inspired piece

9th of August the Chinese circus Cubica Festival

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8690767/Pictures-of-the-day-9-August-2011.html?image=30



Well for my reference what I liked and found interesting were the acrobatics,but what I liked was not only just how they can bend their bodies etc. It was the line formation and the negatives that formed many elements and patterns. So I played around tracing the outlines and thats where my design process developed from.

The headpiece of Nehia,queen of Zebudan.This headpiece(crown),helps her lure the men by the sparkling brass ball it shines from seashores and sailor boats.using her beautiful voice as well to accompany her crown as sher id forever doomed as queen undersea.

up close detail of the bead shells around the headpiece as greebles

up close of the frontal the pearls and metalic brass ball 

Headpiece
Aluminium,pearls,brass ball and wired shells