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Lea Haueisen

My piece of jewellery is literally a statement. A statement concerning all the discussions about a proper name for what jewellery designers create today. In my opinion, the quotation by Benjamin Lignel strikes the crucial point of the problems in giving jewellery a name nowadays, as there are several new terms as author jewelry, studio jewelry and contemporary jewellery. However they all describe at least one thing: jewellery. If they are made by hand, mass produced or if their designers are only known by a few selected people.

Furthermore, not only, we need to determine a common name, but we also have to think of new manners to promote our collections. Therefor I've chosen for the image of a facebook status, since it symbolize one of the most popular ways to communicate today. Though it also stands for the fast momentariness of the internet.

By chosing for an almost ancient craft - embroidery - I want to highlight those opposites of consistency and fugaciousness and maybe create an intersection between them.

A statement can be a jewelry.

And a jewelry is surely a statement.