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Helga Zahn

 

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Jewellery Design Helga Zahn

 

I ought to explain why I hate also making jewellery ...

 

... and I do, not only because the actual period of creation is very short, and the process of making very tedious, but because of its limitations in self expression and materialistic overtone the world "jewellery" carries. I tried once to break that rule with a brooch I made, with a quotation by Karl Marx inside it.

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I failed miserably. The piece in itself is a contradiction, so is the quotation, the way I exhibit in here, another. The image of the imaginary coronation crown carries contradiction, too. The "Cartier" display-tray, with all the associations of that name, displaying a revolutionary quotation, yet another. And so are the monkey pictures on the wall wearing my jewellery.

Compared to its creative quality, the whole concept of money making jewellery today is a contradiction of money making jewellery today is a contradiction and for me a total unimportance.