Before I begin with posting my procrastination blog posts, I
have decided to write a quick overview of my initials posts and then start
slowly flowing into the ones I need to publish.
The first post I published in 2016 was a post about what had
been published by online publications and other bridal blog magazines. This was
an important initial phase as I was still researching what was out there, what
was being discussed and what conversations were taking place concerning bridal
jewellery. This then prompted me to start a collection which would display my
interpretation or my response to these bridal conversations. I then started to
shape my thoughts as the research process began to widen and started looking at
various techniques I could consider using for the actual manufacturing of the
designs. Soon after this the theoretical part of my research started to find
direction as I started to realize that I didn’t want to just simply design
bridal jewellery but Narrative bridal Jewellery, however I still needed to
discover the narrative.
As I tried to discover the narrative I played around the
themes around the bride and groom, the wedding and marriage, myths and facts etc.
trying to find a narrative or concept within this umbrella I could direct my flight
light on. I was then reminded of my love of poetry, which is also a medium I
could express or depict my narrative through. However I was pencil shy and
started looking at poems by other Christian poets and used those as inspiration
for a few designs, as I played around the thought of using mixed mediums of
narrative. After conversations with John
and Chris, I began to gravitate from the place I had found myself in, I started
to fall more in love with the idea of poetry and jewellery, but had the predicament
of what narrative would they both be telling? This lead to a door of discovery
which was followed by research, playing, self-introspection and most of it was
covered in the posts which followed. So in a nut shell that’s the overview.
