This week, browsing through the internet, I stumbled across the work of the UK based jeweler, Frasier Hamilton. He works primarily with wax castings of hands and faces and "uses the body as a landscape". In his artist statement he writes that the hand is a symbol of creation and discovery, this being a recurring motif in his work, it is often shown by a hand clutching onto and uncommon cut of gem. I was quite excited to come across his body of work since is has some similar themes to the current project I am working on, that focuses on themes surrounding touch, hands being at the center of that narrative.
Correlating along with my current project, I am trying to create more of a cross over between my jewelry work and my continuous love affair with photography. I aim this semester to make it a goal for myself to do more research on the history of the relationships between jewelry and photography. Upon my first online deep dive I came across an article on the met museum webpage about an inside look into sentiment of photographic trade literature. Starting mainly with the daguerreotype, as soon as photographic technology was created, jewelers were creating wearable objects that included photographs of loved ones. I plan to take advantage of the access I have to the on campus library and check out a few books that relate to this topic.
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