Jewellery & Metal (MA)

Making is thought.
Thought is matter.
Jewellery is Life*

Just under the turf and mycelium thickets that cover the ground propping up the bored and trudging footsteps of the busy commuter, underworlds of minerals crack, fossilise, and crystallise at temporalities distant from human experience. In this furnace of slow-moving molten metals, rocks, and gases, exciting ‘things’ are stirring. Jewellers and metal artists are only partially engaged in an aesthetic practice; they realise that other aspects of their creativity deal with these elemental matters—finding meanings that are increasingly affective, personal, hopeful, earthly, and objectively subjective. What we choose to keep close are the mattering relationships to ‘things’ that can never be known to wider contexts—beyond their well-buried social, private, and distributed cognitions/meanings/interpretations of a world ever in motion.

(*Mah Rana)