Materials: Powder Coated Copper, Fabric
Dimensions: 4"x3"x1"
This is a brooch that goes along with a wall piece I have made. When the brooch is not being worn it has its own home to live in. The wall piece conceals that this is even a wearable piece of jewelry.
Photo credit: Erin Cora Turner
Jessica C Armstrong
Jessica Armstrong Jewelry Designs
Lancaster, PA. USA
Currently I am an emerging artist in Residence in the fine arts metals program at Millersville University and hold a Jewelry Marketing Internship with a fashion jewelry designer in New York City. I graduated with my Masters of Fine Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in May 2013 and with my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Kentucky University in 2010.
Moving across the country, I have encountered many different physical surroundings, and each of these shifts in landscape, both physical and emotional have shaped my work. With each of these changes of scenery, I?ve experienced new climates, people, relationships, and ways of thinking about my surroundings and myself. My jewelry is a response to these changes.
With the introduction of color, my work became boundless and found itself transformed. I began looking outside myself for inspiration, I began noticing novel elements of the landscape or climate and represented them in my work in a more literal way. For example, resin, glass microbeads and glitter became the cornices for icicles of a Pennsylvania snowstorm, or even caves visited in Kentucky or Tennessee. Chunky embossing powder references soil from my hometown, while chain and thread represents the link between the people living far away from me. Together, these layers create a representation and transformation of landscapes, people and relationships within my life. With the introduction of these particular found objects into my jewelry, I have been able to mimic physical and emotional states through tactile surfaces. This becomes an invitation to the viewer to take a second look, to delve deeper into each piece, and question what is really within the structure. I use jewel ry as a form of communication to express my relationships, topography, climate and landscapes, allowing me to wear my emotions, take them with me, in order to stay connected to my past, as well as be mindful of the present and possible future.
Materials: Powder Coated Copper, Fabric
Dimensions: 4"x3"x1"
This is a brooch that goes along with a wall piece I have made. When the brooch is not being worn it has its own home to live in. The wall piece conceals that this is even a wearable piece of jewelry.
Photo credit: Erin Cora Turner
Jessica C Armstrong
Jessica Armstrong Jewelry Designs
Lancaster, PA. USA
Currently I am an emerging artist in Residence in the fine arts metals program at Millersville University and hold a Jewelry Marketing Internship with a fashion jewelry designer in New York City. I graduated with my Masters of Fine Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in May 2013 and with my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Kentucky University in 2010.
Moving across the country, I have encountered many different physical surroundings, and each of these shifts in landscape, both physical and emotional have shaped my work. With each of these changes of scenery, I?ve experienced new climates, people, relationships, and ways of thinking about my surroundings and myself. My jewelry is a response to these changes.
With the introduction of color, my work became boundless and found itself transformed. I began looking outside myself for inspiration, I began noticing novel elements of the landscape or climate and represented them in my work in a more literal way. For example, resin, glass microbeads and glitter became the cornices for icicles of a Pennsylvania snowstorm, or even caves visited in Kentucky or Tennessee. Chunky embossing powder references soil from my hometown, while chain and thread represents the link between the people living far away from me. Together, these layers create a representation and transformation of landscapes, people and relationships within my life. With the introduction of these particular found objects into my jewelry, I have been able to mimic physical and emotional states through tactile surfaces. This becomes an invitation to the viewer to take a second look, to delve deeper into each piece, and question what is really within the structure. I use jewel ry as a form of communication to express my relationships, topography, climate and landscapes, allowing me to wear my emotions, take them with me, in order to stay connected to my past, as well as be mindful of the present and possible future.