Valentine’s Gifts?
                      Not what you think…

Valentine greeting card dated 1909.

                     

Hi,

                  

This time, I am making an exception:
I am going to write about my family.

To be more specific -
about the jewels I’ve made
for the four grown-up women
in my family, for Valentine’s Day:
[Is this day is dedicated only to romantic lovers?...]

I feel blessed and lucky:
-  I’m lucky to have two daughters and two daughters-in-law;
- I’m lucky to be able to give them my hand-made gifts;
- I’m lucky that they love them
  (At least they say so…)

My eldest daughter loves earrings.
She has long curly hair,
so I’ve made her long earrings,
which were selected from my listings at my ETSY shop :

https://www.etsy.com/listing/254897056

My younger daughter DOES NOT like jewelry!
[Is this the result of my bad education???]
The only jewel she wears
is a ring I made her
long a time ago.
So, I made her another ring…
She has a big palm with chubby fingers,
so I’ve made a dramatic piece ,
with a big raw Aqua Marine stone,
held by five “arms” of solid gold:

My elder daughter-in-law
is an elegant lady who adores jewelry.
She asked for a bracelet.
As I am now in my “geometric period”,
I designed a bracelet
which is composed of three attached elements:
A ring, a chain of small pentagons,
and a rectangular bracelet:

Last ( certainly not least), I designed for
my younger daughter-in-law
a long statement pendant
which will fit
her wide long dresses she wears:

If you also want a special design,
I’ll be glad to be challenged!

Visit my shop -

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JewelryByVita

Love , be loved!

and -

Love LIFE

Vita

What this has to do with jewelry???

Hi,

I’ll answer that later, but first –
for those who wondered
why I have uploaded fewer posts lately,
here is the reason:

OLAFUR ELIASSON !

I am researching this contemporary artist,
as my last duty for my MA degree in History of
Art.

Learn about his work and watch this video,
taken in an exhibitionin Berlin, last year.
It represents most of his latest work.

Eliasson creates for us, the spectators, experiences and phenomena,
and invites to take an active part in them and, in fact,
to be elements in his artistic work.
(Look at the people performing with their multi-shadows…)

I wander:

What is the difference between his artistic works
and the spectacles we see in amusement parks like
“Disney World”?
Does the fact that his creations are exhibited in museums,
makes them pieces of Art?

I  am  trying to answer these questions in my small and humble
research thesis…

So,

What does all of this have  to do with jewelry???

Well, 

Nothing!

…Except for the fact that I am the same person
who makes the jewelry…And maybe, maybe, certain features
echo my  studying of Art…

 

For instance, here are  my  “astronomic” earrings,
which are reminiscent of celestial objects:

Here is our beautiful planet earth –

 

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123246818/

 And this is the full moon:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123332108/

I’ll be very glad to hear your opinion about “spectacles” in museums.

and about my earrings.

Please, leave your comment below.

See you soon,

Vita