Ela Bauer
While studying at the Rietveld academy in Amsterdam, I tried to get to the roots of what makes something into a “jewel”.
Through this process, my jewels became more of an object. They were statements about terms such as:
preciousness, wearability, decoration.
Nowadays, the definition of jewelry still occupies me in many ways, as a kind of eternal question.
Maybe it reflects the difficulty of naming things and defining meanings anyway.
The organic, cell and tree – like forms in my work, express my preoccupation with the fact, that everything;
situations, definitions, people…, is in continuous movement, continuous change.
The processes of change in the organisms; growth, developement, and disintegration, are in my view
the ultimate metaphors for this feeling. They have a great influence on my ‘organic’ form-vocabulary (…)