At http://www.thebazaarium.com/ I found these wonderful works full of clever witticisms and inventive word-play silhouettes. Here is a piece called "Dandy Lion."
Dandyism is a term i recently discovered and relate quite strongly to.
"Baudelaire, commented that the dandies had "no profession other than elegance...no other status but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons....The dandy must aspire to be sublime without interruption; he must live and sleep before a mirror." (Seigel, 98-99) "
This is a particular kind of personal folklore, in which one essentially makes their own set of associations to be held to, and lives by them. As jewellery is in it's essence a fashion or visual guide to it's wearer, I think it has the appropriate nature to allow for it's own Dandyism. It is then left for me to decide which folklore objects, styles or imagery I wish to apply, or present to the public to choose from.
The nature of a jeweller is perhaps more to offer a range of Dandy personas and allow each to choose pieces according to their own?
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