Mixed Materials

Figure 1 - Beppe. 2009. slowly brooch. brass, lime wood, color, 8 x 6 x 4 cm / 30 g  

Mixed Materials are two or more forms of elements that are physically combined together to create or form a material that can be made as a precious or non-precious material.

The French were the leading makers of manipulating non-precious pearl imitation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many of the art-jewellery in Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery are using precious and non-precious materials to motivate the creation of contemporary jewellery to be more like traditional values of mixed materials as seen in Kesslers’ jewellery brooches in figure 1.

I want to present my art-jewellery like Kessler, she is using feelings and thoughts for expressing her life by combining old and new contemporary materials to describe her art-jewellery work. If I could use this method for my art-jewellery, which will have mix material jewellery that has 80% of plastic, it will help the society to understand my feelings and thoughts about recycling plastic materials as a way of creating awareness.

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