Was a flash in the pan, I was thinking about a new line and in my research I found that all areas had been tapped out. There are so many Jewelry designers out there, and so many great ideas it is getting harder and harder to come up with new ideas... ones that not have already been done.
Ideas that will catch on and hopefully become the next big thing, are not easy to come up with, and I am one who likes to come up with new uses for everyday components. It is part of my creation process, pushing and testing myself to create more with a toggle clasp then using it for it's original use. This allows me to imagine and put my creative mind to work, it is a simple yet really effective way of keeping my imagination working and sharp.
I find that my subconscious mind works better then me trying to make something happen, I leave it to my intuition to work it out or rather to do what I feel. In this way it is easy for me to continue with the more difficult task of figuring out the "mechanics" of the piece. I learned to concentrate more on the way a piece is going to lay on the body, and how it is going to behave when worn, rather then what colors it will be. Everything seems to work itself out from there.
I was not sure of anything when I started out in the early 90's creating jewelry... I just needed money and had all these crafts I knew how to do, from camp and from my mother. She owned a gift shop and we her children would make all the gifts.... Child free labor... they call it these days! =) I learned how to do just about everything, including knitting and embroidery... how embarrassing! I mean she pushed us to finish product and stressed us out to do it! But without that "guidance" I will call it... I would not have had the knowledge to create in the first place and would never had been able to turn my last US $300.00 into US $1,600.00 by creating beautiful necklaces and selling them at Magic Mountain... I sold every last one!
So needless to say I have learned to follow my intuition very early on and it always works for me.
So when I started to try to figure what direction to go, there were just to many visuals coming into my minds eye and was clouding my perception and making it difficult to come up with anything. So I listened to my intuition and decided to create a new beginning... Origins.... The Beginning! And I am happy to say it is selling, I have sold 7 pieces from this line already and that is a great start for me, so I am happy and inspired!
This collection is my first break from creating with a structured technique, this collection is all about the very first pieces of personal adornment and what those pieces might have looked like. So it is interpretive on my part and the viewers part as well as they are pushed to ask, what is this... this new beginning. And do they look like they could have been created by our very first intelligent ancestors.
Do these pieces look like relics or authentic enough to pass??? You have to answer these questions, I will try my best to keep you guessing and waiting to see the next piece from my new line, Origins... The Beginning!
