Abstract
My jewelry explores the interaction within an individual personality between the ego, superego and id as represented by silver animals and abstract cage forms. This is a theatrical simplification of how people can survive and navigate ideas as a conceptual structure. The animals’ relationship to the cage form parallels the Freudian interpretation of how the ego relates to systems imposed by the superego. This is seen as the animals create, reject, weave, or break the cages. The id of this process is represented in the making of these pieces. The ego and superego both form from the id. Each of my works in this series represents how a person may react to an idea, as the ego reacts to the systems imposed by the superego. The person may choose to carry an idea with them, as the flying fish maintains itself within the cage in Flight. Someone may come upon an old idea and find it comfortable, such as the cat in Found. Another idea may only be sustainable for a limited time and can be outgrown - the way the rabbit outgrows its cage in Growth. My jewelry is meant to be a reminder of the power of ideas when navigating our social environment and where these concepts originate.