[Jewelry making - Article 00677] - Re: [Orchid] Wearing your jewelry creations

[Nisa]

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    I am so pleased to find this topic on the table. I have always loved
    jewelry, long before I had the skills and knowledge to create my own,
    and so I have a large collection of jewelry, mostly my own pieces,
    but also many pieces done by other artists. I wear jewelry to
    (hopefully) compliment my person/body with pieces that I feel express
    beauty, and I'm certainly not the only artist capable of
    accomplishing this. So I will often wear pieces that I did not make,
    and I am always a bit dismayed by the reactions that I get. People
    will compliment the jewelry, asking if I made this too, and when I
    reply that I did not but so-and-so did, they raise an eyebrow, as
    though I'm making a public statement that I chose this artist's work
    over my own. And my jeweler friends frown down on wearing other
    people's work as well, primarily because of the loss of potential
    marketing of your own work..... As a result, I'm definitely more
    conscious of where I will be with another artist's work on, which I
    regret. I do not want to limit my "style" to only my own jewelry, and
    so I don't, but I'd love to lose this awareness that has developed
    since entering into the professional world. 

    I also wear my prototypes, partly because I'm proud of the finished
    piece, partly to test it out, and partly because it often times
    leads to orders, because if there's one thing that I know about my
    own work, it's that it always looks better on, as it was intended. 

    Thanks for the topic, and for listening, as usual...... 

Nisa
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