MOURNING JEWELRY - necklace

USD$50.00

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Description

Jewelry is never neutral; it is always a sign, a carrier of meaning to be read, expressing one’s social situation and identity. On a private level, jewelry can function as a memento—a reminder of a person, a place, or an occurrence in life. Sometimes these memories are happy, sometime they are sad—emotional qualities discernible in the object itself. During the nineteenth century black jewelry, serving as a reminder of a lost person and one’s own mortality, became popular. The style was heavily influenced by concurrent fashion and architecture featuring symmetrical and geometric shapes. MOURNING JEWELRY is a series of rubber necklaces inspired by the black jewelry of the Victorian Era. In their simple and abstract form they are contemporary reinterpretations.
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rubber, necklace, handmade, black