Face It

Abstract

Face, reveal, cover, eyes, shame, repetition and secrets. All powerful little words, all repeating in my head. For a long time these exact words have been a starting point for my previous projects - And they won’t fail this time either. I am inspired by the theme of faces and powerful, uncertain feelings. I brought these feelings into jewelries by using photos of people and manipulating them in different ways. This time photos of faces got wiped away and new ones came instead – frames for people to wear them, frame their selves. My thesis tells a story how starting point can lead into totally something else that you had first planned. The story tells how subjects can change but the same idea stays and develops. In my thesis face -brooches changed into frame –necklaces. Without each other’s they wouldn’t exist. The changes in my work have been big, but a great symbiosis between my work in the beginning and in the end had been created.