These various jewelry objects ( earrings, brooches, pins, necklaces, pendants, rings ) are fabricated in etched, sterling silver. The process of creating images in silver this way is a technique of my own invention that adapts multiple, pre-existing industrial methods for studio use.
This continuing body of work is a byproduct of educating myself in photography. More specifically these pieces are, in part, reactionary to ideas of photography theory written about by thinkers like Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin and James Elkins.
Barthes describes the interpretation of a photograph in terms of ‘Studium’ and ‘Punctum.”
In many of these pieces I am experimentally presenting the punctum divorced from the studium. You are given a small detail, in the form of a jewelry object, without the larger context of a photograph. Once the “punctum” is purchased and worn, the context becomes the wearer. The wearer becomes their own “studium,” their own intentional context.
This continuing body of work is a byproduct of educating myself in photography. More specifically these pieces are, in part, reactionary to ideas of photography theory written about by thinkers like Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin and James Elkins.
Barthes describes the interpretation of a photograph in terms of ‘Studium’ and ‘Punctum.”
In many of these pieces I am experimentally presenting the punctum divorced from the studium. You are given a small detail, in the form of a jewelry object, without the larger context of a photograph. Once the “punctum” is purchased and worn, the context becomes the wearer. The wearer becomes their own “studium,” their own intentional context.
