Title of Abstract
Carving Rings of Stone
Session Title
Professional Practices in Creative Expressions 2
College
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Department
Fine Arts
Faculty Mentor
Anne Fiala, M.F.A.
Abstract
My artwork illustrates my relationship with nature. I am heavily inspired by nature and utilize its colors, shapes, and textures throughout my works. In my recent studies, I have begun to use a part of it to create my jewelry: the stone. In this study, I reverse the normalized idea of how silver and stone are arranged in jewelry. Instead of setting a stone in a silver setting, I carve a stone and set the silver atop it.. In this new relationship, the stone has now become the supporting, wearable mechanism and the silver the added embellishment. Acting like a patina, the silver highlights the details carved into the stone. As I continue to explore this body of work, I will utilize aspects of nature through carved embellishments within my work and by the natural, unrefined stone element that I carve. I intend to make a series of rings and bracelets carved of stone with silver inlays as well as experiment to discover how to attach the silver to the stone.
Course Assignment
ARTS 491 - Fiala
Type of Presentation
Oral presentation
Carving Rings of Stone
My artwork illustrates my relationship with nature. I am heavily inspired by nature and utilize its colors, shapes, and textures throughout my works. In my recent studies, I have begun to use a part of it to create my jewelry: the stone. In this study, I reverse the normalized idea of how silver and stone are arranged in jewelry. Instead of setting a stone in a silver setting, I carve a stone and set the silver atop it.. In this new relationship, the stone has now become the supporting, wearable mechanism and the silver the added embellishment. Acting like a patina, the silver highlights the details carved into the stone. As I continue to explore this body of work, I will utilize aspects of nature through carved embellishments within my work and by the natural, unrefined stone element that I carve. I intend to make a series of rings and bracelets carved of stone with silver inlays as well as experiment to discover how to attach the silver to the stone.
