[Jewelry making - Article 00997] - Re: [Orchid] Prejudice against copper materials?

[Roseann Hanson]

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    In posting a response to Mike's "copper prejudice" post, I ended up
    with this mulling around my head: 

    I make jewelry to connect with people -- I adore it when a woman
    goes nuts over one of my pieces, buys it, and calls me later to say
    how many people admire it and how special it makes her feel. Bingo!
    That's the wonderful human sharing and connections of making and
    passing on adornments. Nothing I've ever done that is creative has
    this special human-to-human connection. 

    I don't make jewelry to demonstrate the highest form of art as a
    jeweler -- that is, in producing pieces I am usually drawing out from
    the stones and metal the design, form, and function that reaches my
    goals of ultimate adornment (aesthetic) and the making of the piece,
    the process, is second for me.  I know this will likely evolve as I
    mature as a metalsmith, but that's how I perceive it now. 

    When I started out I thought I couldn't sell anything until I could
    perform every type of skill in silver and then gold -- not until I
    was a "true artist" (whatever that is). But my recent experience with
    the copper pendants really changed this perception. Here I am with a
    line of copper pendants that make people go nutso, and I never wanted
    to! 

    Does that not make me an artist, because I create for people and not
    the art? I lurked around Orchid for a year before joining in because
    I thought had not earned the title of "metalsmith" let alone
    "artist." 

Roseann


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