Carin Jones
Carin Jones has inspired me for a long time with her metalworking and incorporation of animal bones and gemstones into her wearable pieces. Jones’ website describes the pairing of these materials and says this, “ While, at first glance this may seem contradictory, the partnership challenges the audiences inclination to undervalue one material and overvalue the other. It clarifies the equality of elements- born of stardust and returning to stardust- and emphasizes the true value of the natural world.” Her background in zoology and years of collecting and cataloguing specimen motivates her to use found bones, and her experience having a father who worked as an architect gave her interest in shapes and how they interact with each other. I find that this is very apparent in her latest work, in parti cular the attention paid to whi ch bone to pair with what type of stone and how to use metal to highlight that with shape. I also think this may inspire her approa ch to larger...