From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sun May 09 2004 - 16:28:11 MDT
[Blunderov] I thought especially the Mermaid might enjoy this site.
Best Regards
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All This Useless Beauty
Finding beauty through craft in digital technology
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/pixelraiders/papers/papwa
ll.htm
Jayne Wallace* and Mike Press**
*Sheffield Hallam University, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield S11
8UZ, UK
jayne.s.wallace@student.shu.ac.uk
**Sheffield Hallam University, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield S11
8UZ, UK m.p.press@shu.ac.uk
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Empathy
Empathy is about relationships: with people, materials and processes: an
awareness of social, personal and emotional sensitivities. To empathise is
to seek to see the situation through another’s eyes, to gain someone’s
perspective and to share our own. Within Contemporary Jewellery, many pieces
have been created to put forward a perspective of the maker, and also of
others relating to a particular social phenomenon. In order to reflect
personal concerns and those sensitive to the issue, makers must engage with
the perspectives and viewpoints of others surrounding the matter and the
subject in which they are working. A piece of work, which is intended to
make a comment, is potentially futile if it is merely a reflection of the
concerns of the maker.
Through empathy the maker has a relationship with the people central to the
concerns of the piece and also the audience who will view it. In the arena
of ‘comment making’ beauty has a strong role in engaging an audience with
issues which may be unpalatable or complex.
Fig 7: Bangle 'Gold Makes Blind' by Otto Künzli.
Otto Künzli’s ‘Gold Makes Blind’ (figure 7) expresses disgust of apartheid
and the mining of gold in 1980s South Africa through a very quiet, gentle,
elegant piece of jewellery. He highlights the greed and value systems
associated with wearing gold and contemporary jewellers’ rejections of it as
a material at this time by using beauty as a powerful force of engagement
and messenger.
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