Jewelry and Wearable Art
The Jewelbox Review
enamel on hand-pushed engraved fine silver, sterling silver, steel 2019 L to R: Empress Jose I, Flawless Sabrina, Divine These brooches commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot and honor the key roles of drag queens in the LGBTQ rights movement. The brooches wear “jewelry” that I engraved with each drag queen’s famous quote or motto. This series looks at jewelry as a personal and intimate way to express identity and connect to community history. It was also a technical experiment of creating images using hand-pushed engraving, champlevé, and transparent enamel. |