MASK; THE CONTEXTUAL CRY

Description

This Project challenges conventional definitions of adornment, positioning both masks and jewelry as tools for mediating identity transformation and self-expression. By considering jewelry as a wearable mask, this thesis explores how adornment can serve as a bridge between the physical and the immaterial, allowing the wearer to exist in a continuous state of metamorphosis. In a contemporary world constrained by time, space, and rigid social structures, jewelry, like the mask, allows its wearer the ability to defy these boundaries and better express unique identities. Materials used are gemstones, wood and gold.