A Type of Jewellery

Series of wearable letterpress prints, using existing symbols from the Latin alphabet to suggest pieces of jewellery. Paper, ink, gold.

Drawing a parallel between two aspects of modern human behaviour and visual culture: adornment and the use of symbols

Without altering the symbols, they become abstracted into new forms when arranged and combined in formations. In this state they communicate something other than words.

“Symbols are the instruments which convert raw intelligence into culture” – Alan Fletcher

“Beasts abstract not” – John Locke