Video: Content is more important than form: Jaana Mattson's jewelry
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Jewelry made by Minnesota craftswoman Jaana Mattson contains no precious metals or expensive stones. But they have something different: a small piece of history, the nature around us or someone's life. And for some people it is more important and more expensive than gold or diamonds.
Jaana Mattson creates jewelry with inspiration from nature and vintage materials. “My technique is a combination of classic stained glass and traditional jewelry practices to make fragile materials wearable,” says the author. Jaana emphasizes that she is working not only on the form of her jewelry, but also on their content: each of her necklaces is decorated with a kind of glass pendant, inside which you can find anything and this “anything” carries a certain meaning.
Now Jaana's collection has five series of jewelry. Illustrations include advertisements and illustrations from the 1930s, yellowed newspapers and magazines, vintage Japanese postage stamps, hand-painted French postcards, and other historical prints. For the Antique Lace series, the author finds exquisite antique laces created by unknown craftswomen many years ago.
With equal enthusiasm, Jaana Mattson creates jewelry from natural materials. Leaf Skeletons are dry leaves trapped between glass plates, whose structure, according to Jaana, is as individual as a person's fingerprints. The Feathers series is based on vibrant bird feathers, while the From The Woods collection contains bits of bark.
Jaana Mattson made her first steps in art as the author of interactive sculptures and collages from scrap materials. The creation of jewelry, according to Jaana, was the culmination of her creative activity.
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