On the immateriality and the virtuality of jewelry and ornament:
(and if it matters to own jewelry at all)
(...)
"If I am asked what jewelry is, I’ d say jewelry is a language.
A language with no conventionally agreed upon rules or words; a language anyone can relate to, to a certain extent (that is, even beyond a given social, economic and cultural context.)
A language that is universal and sensual - as immediate as a sound or a smell. As immaterial also. Jewelry can exist as an image. As a memory or a story once told or overheard. Jewelry exists beyond its materiality.
I own most of my jewelry as printed matter in books, as a saved .jpg file on my desktop, as a vague recollection of mesmerizing pieces I saw in a museum, worn by somebody that I briefly met or deeply cherished, on a movie star or adorning a personality in a painting. The details of what makes the jewelry so exceptional to me, are somehow blurry. What stays is a glimmering impression - a personal connection that I made with a certain piece I saw. The impression gradually blurred, dissolved, modified."
(...) All rights reserved _ Conversation Piece_10/07/2013
Image: part of Beatrice’s very own, virtual and un-curated ‘collection’ of jewelry and ornament. (2010 - ongoing).
