jewellery journey

jewellery journey
an exhibition of the international internet project for jewellery designers
jewellery journey
International Internet Project for jewellery designers
The idea of this project is the dialogue between international
jewellery designers: a journey together through our world.
The communication between the participants is based upon
the Internet. The website of Jewellery Journey is the forum for
the communication between the participants. On this website
all letters, pictures, sketches and news are published. Thereby
everyone has the possibility to watch and to participate in the
process of the journey.
The aim of Jewellery Journey is to gain new insights, experience
and contacts. Each participant is invited to create a piece of
work that is inspired from this dialogue.
The first journey started October 15th 2002 and ended three
months later. Participants from Finland, Germany, Belgium,
Australia, Spain, Korea and South Africa travelled together
through the world of jewellery. Most of these participants were
already travelling, when Jewellery Journey began. There are
exchange students and travellers who just came home or
departed the next day.
Seventeen travellers created over thirty jewellery objects inspired
by this journey. The results are now shown in a travelling
exhibition in every participant’s home country.
The following “Pictures out of a suitcase” are a photographic
interpretation of the theme. They show a selection from every
participant’s work within the project.
Deirdre Coleman, Johannesburg
[email protected]
Journey of transformation
aluminium tin pulls,
glass and plastic beads, silver catch
I loved the idea of the jewellery journey project! This inspired me to try and
use unconventional materials. I started to look around me at everyday objects.
I eventually chose to work with aluminium tin pulls from tin cans as they are
recognised worldwide. Another reason was the different colours of the tin pulls.
At the moment in South Africa there is a competition with yellow tin pulls. This
yellow colour sparked my imagination and I started experimenting and trying to
collect as many tin pulls as I could. I had friends, family and even bars collecting
for me! I decided to transform the tin pulls so that you do not immediately
recognise them for what they really are.
Claudia Küster, Berlin
[email protected]
Head over heels in Berlin
silver, mirrors, acryl,
glass, photographs
The jewellery is a reflection in design of the architectonical situation, the
materials and the traveller‘s impressions under- and overground during a
journey with the berlin underground. The focal point has been lain on the two
stations Potsdamer Platz and Gleisdreieck.
Elisa Kaasinen, Lahti
[email protected]
Starmaps
copper, silver
My pieces of jewellery are built around the idea that everyone has a place called
home, understood in one way or the other. A place where every journey starts from
and where it ends to. It can be a one night journey or one that lasts for a life time.
A trip in our own thoughts or a trip around the world. Still there is always a place
where we belong more than anywhere.
I created these two pieces to guide and to protect, as we are on a journey. There´s
a small space inside, where one can put something to remind of the place where
it all started from. On the sides of each piece there are engraved maps: Northern
sky and the map of Europe on the other piece and a Chinese star map and the
map of Asia on the other. There could be made one piece of jewellery, like these
two, for every corner of the world.
My idea was to create a feeling that home is never too far away. The stars in the
night sky tell us the right direction, they either lead us forward on our journey or
guide us back home. They are always there, the one thing that lasts forever.
Bettina Bauer, Güstrow
[email protected]
Butterflies
fibre foil, wool, steel wire, pvc-tube
Sometimes I dream about butterflies. About how they move, how far they go or if
they have a target.
I have dreamt about being a butterfly. Especially on hot summer days I like the
image of swinging my fragile wings through the air, to flatter with the wind and to
land on a fragrant bloom.
This dream is always a nice little journey.
Katrin Arp, Hamburg
[email protected]
Networks
silver, polyurethane
Networks exist in endless varying forms and ways in our world.
They seem to be one of the principles that organise life.
My work is based upon the idea of a network that is more than the sum of its
parts.
The jewellery piece reminds of the fertility and power of networks. It is inspired
by the process of linking in the Jewellery Journey.
As a wearable item, it is a vehicle for the idea in close context to human - it is
able to travel over the body of the wearer and to another body.
Ralf Stautner, Barcelona
[email protected]
Immediacy
material collage
a provisional report of my work
immediacy.
hit by a moment.
on my way I find a moment.
the immediacy as language… no !
as material !
others use gold or silver.
my material is immediacy.
today I don´t know, what happened
yesterday.
the day after tomorrow will be
unknown for me tomorrow.
what is present?
do weak moments exist in presence ?
i give a shit !
“i demand, that we shut up,
when we don´t have emotions
anymore !” (andre breton) ?
i demand, that we shut up,
when we don´t have emotions
anymore !!
well… a provisional report. only.
Alena Simon, Wismar
[email protected]
Charms
silver, felt
I am part of this journey, because I am a nomad deep inside.
To travel is not only to go from one place to another -life is a journey – every
day.
I can travel inside myself with my own imagination. I don´t have a destination
every time. Sometimes I jump into the unknown.
Everyone who makes a journey sometimes needs something, that protects him
at the trip. To be protected means that I feel better, more safe. And I need
something that reminds me where I came from.
The two charms give space to these ideas, wishes and imaginations.
Ebony Satchwell, Sydney
[email protected]
Body route
tyre, rubber tube, steel, brass, gold
Walking along Bondi beach I was always fascinated by marks left in the sand
by people‘s journeys, particularly those left by early morning vehicles. I love
the order and repetition in tyre marks. This lead me to material investigation of
used bike tyres which had had many journeys. Tyres are quite synonymous with
journeys as they are an important component of many vehicles for travel. The
strip of tyre repetitively curves and journeys across the body, reminiscent of roads
and endless movement while the two circular rings contribute to the concept of
continual movement.
Ine-Moni Favache, Kessel-Lo
[email protected]
Bubblejewels
silver, white and black feathers,
textile, rockcrystal, peridot, onyx
I´ve made threesome of „bubblejewels“.
The black jewel reflects death. The white one is inner soul and birth. And the red
one is the passion and love of life.
It´s just my way to say that birth and dead without any passion in between, is a
sad, sad story…
It´s just my way to say: Please enjoy life you all!!!
Outi Tolvanen, Lahti
[email protected]
Traveller worms
bronze
The point of my journey has began with living my life..so there will be some
day when I really begin to travel in other countries...
...But first I have to beat my fear to meet people…
…so my worms will help me with communication when the situation seems
really scary to me…
…They remind me of the power that I got inside.
One wormring who wants to say hi to everybody
One wormbrooch which loves to be on the shoulder
One wormnecklace
Britta Huntemann, Hamburg
[email protected]
E-motion
photograms, synthetic foil
Journey means to me movement – travelling is proceeding.
When I go on a journey it always has great influence on my emotions and
feelings.
I translated these special feelings and emotions into experimental photographic
works. The swings, movements and fluid transitions in the pictures are a
visualisation of my experiences as a traveller.
The jewellery pieces made with the photographs bring back the initial ideas to
the wearer – the traveller.
Steffi Mayer, Berlin
[email protected]
Rings from Berlin to Korea
silver, paper
While thinking about travelling in general I realised that there are certain things
that accompanied every single one of my journeys: Postcards, photographs, traveller
guides, maps… All these items are made of paper. I decided to use this material for
my jewellery.
I was looking forward to get to know the different experiences of the people who take
part at the project. Therefore I tried to keep the contact to all of them to get some
insights in the different ways of travelling.
I asked them to send me paper from their journeys or from their home region. So I
received material that recites stations of a journey in form of tickets, brochures and so
on- like a journey patchwork. It also tells a story about the traveller.
I know now, for example, that Hamburg is a vivid town with many cultural events and
exhibitions that is gripping for some people - Katti told me.
And I learnt about Britta that she goes many times by train from Berlin to Hamburg to
Wismar to Berlin to Wismar to Hamburg..it seems to be an important circle in her life.
These kind of stories are what I like to tell with my “Rings from Berlin to Korea.”
Ines Haselhuhn, Pforzheim
[email protected]
Eine Reise ins Blaue
lightblue felt,
freshwater pearls, white felt
This Jewellery visually manifests my original aim from the beginning of our
jewelleryjourney project of placing materials which originally come from the
human body, like teeth or hair, on parts of the human body where they
usually do not belong. I have been working with the material in different ways
and changed it. In the end a hairy material has been created jewellery that looks
like something human.
Delfin Claes, Düsseldorf
[email protected]
Made in Germany
paper, plastic, metal badges
Make it pink. Let people think.
My jewellery journey is a real one. I´ve actually travelled to another country to
enhance my knowledge of jewellery and the craftmanship to make it. Although
Germany is only across one border, the cultural differences are huge.
At first I was struck by the huge pressence of kitch in German society. It was as if the
world stopped in the repugnend eighties here. In almost every thing. Only a foreigner
can see it, but even he or her not for long. While everybody in the end gets adapted.
I wanted to use this kitchy thing that Germany has to emphasise my journey. To point
out that 400 kilometers to the east makes a real world of differences. So I started to
collect images of what makes Germany so kitchy.
Untill I came across a cat. And this one really was the reincarnation of Hitler. When I
saw him, he looked at me, with this crazed look in his eyes. That made me think.
Let me explain what I thought. Many young Germans still feel guilty for what their
ancesters did in the second world war. They are unwilling to talk or laugh about this.
For me, laughing is a way to come to terms with my self. So I thought, why not use
this odd cat and make real Germany-souvenir badges with history, humor and kitch.
Nane Adam, Wismar
[email protected]
Connection lines
silver, stretch magic
These bridges built from my idol Santiago Calatrava have given me the
inspiration for making jewellery. Even those bridges make a connection from
town to town and from land to land like our “travelling”.
So is my interpretation for “travelling”.
The flight-lines that are connected to the countries.
The streets that are connected to the towns and the paths that are connected to
the friends and neighbors.
The swing bridges from Calatrava have a lot of steel cables. So I have wrapped
my product of jewellery with thin lines.
Youra Kim, Seoul
[email protected]
Ivory work
ivory
About 4 years ago I have gotten some pieces of ivory from a friend of mine.
I don´t know where the ivory came from. Maybe from Africa…
The ivory has certainly a long journey whether it wanted or not.
What was the ivory´s journey?
But I got some reproaches from another people, because I worked with the ivories.
You know…the ivory-story…
The people said to me, that I should not use the ivory. I had to discuss with them
about it and sometimes the discussion was hard.
I became doubt. I needed many times to overcome the reproaches. I thought too,
that I should change my material. I have tried bone too. But it was a pity for me,
that I put my ivory in a box again. It is a beautiful material.
For me…The life is a journey…a Korean poet said, when he died…“I had a good
trip in the world“ for him the life is a short trip…So…I took some material that had
been living in the world. I didn´t want to show with the material, what I want to
show. I tried to show what the material wants to show…So…I searched, what I can
make with the material and how…
Karola Torkos, Halle
[email protected]
Reisen und Raum
blackened silver
Undertaking a journey for me is to move in a room (car, ship, plane, railway…)
from one place to another. I depart and arrive at a place ….or to myself.
My brooches are the first trial to find signs for places. – Outlines, medieval
castles, borders (the own or the foreign ones).
One endless, complete band.
I start running, get away from the starting point and suddenly I arrive at this point
again. It is this kind of journey, that we call Life, hourly, daily, monthly, yearly.
Imprint
Idea, concept and organisation
Katrin Arp • [email protected]
Britta Huntemann • [email protected]
Steffi Mayer • [email protected]
Photos and graphic design
Rainer Schäle • www.rainerschaele.de
Text
Participants and jewellery journey
Graphic design of the exhibition
Luise Kolpin • [email protected]
Website
www.jewelleryjourney.de
Webdesign
Daniel Krüger • www.silberkoffer.de
Year of publishing
2003
Copyright by Rainer Schäle and participants of Jewellery Journey
www.jewelleryjourney.de