My jewellery functions

 Social Status

My jewellery pieces can be defined as a social status to a person who likes wearing recycled jewellery, or imagining about having an item that is recycled on their body. My jewellery pieces are a personal ornament of saving the environment by creating jewellery that will send a strong message to society like the “Multi-layered” jewellery brooch of  Mario Albrecht in Figure 1, which is made with plastic bags and foils. The jewellery pieces that I design or make are a symbol of social status. 

Figure 1 -  Albrecht. M. 2016. Brooch "tagged", Polyethylene (plastic bags & packaging film), silver, dental steel.

Metcalf (On the Nature of Jewelry,1998) says, "Probably the most important subtext of jewelry is to mark social identity and status. Adornment has always been used to either distinguish or merge the wearer with social groupings"  Metcalf's statement expresses a lot of information, but looking from what is happening in society now, most of the people in our days are wearing recycled jewellery as a new fashion trend of awareness in "Eco-warriors".