[Jewelry making - Article 00084] - [Orchid] Ugly necklace contest

[Noel]

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    The voting for the Ugly Necklace Contest is drawing to a close and
    I'm still firmly entrenched in 6th place, so anybody who was
    planning to vote, now's the
    time-- http://www.landofodds.com/store/ugly2contest.htm ;^). 

    But my real point here is to encourage some of you to think about
    entering next year. It's not for prestige, and it's not for the
    prize. I find myself really intruiged by the challenge. This year's
    necklace was constructed in about 45 minutes, at most, out of the
    ugliest gaudy plastic crap I could find. The same seemed true of
    most of the others. But I find myself trying to figure out how to
    make a truly ugly piece that is possibly still art. What makes a
    thing "ugly"? What makes it "art"? I intend these as rhetorical
    questions, possibly to be answered by attempts to make a worthy ugly
    necklace, not just a "cheap shot" such as the things on the site,
    especially when viewed on gold lame'. 

    I think it is a worthwhile, useful undertaking, and I hope a few of
    you will agree! 

Noel

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