Playfulness and Craft (investigation through jewellery making)
Play has an end and purpose in itself but goes beyond that, as a way of learning or developing skills and testing ideas, and so is related to making. Through concepts of play makers can envision themselves as more skilled, experiment with rules, use make-belief to engage with risk and further their skills, developing mastery: making is a play space. My series of large scale necklaces used motifs from the folktale Momotaro (Little Peachling) to explore this, hand-making beads, cords and spacers.
Bridget Harvey
London, England