The elements
Education that is relevant here:
1991-1994 Apprenticeship Goldschmiedeatelier Bernd Hermsen in Düsseldorf & Berufschule in Essen, Germany.
2015-2017 MFA Nonfiction Writing, The School of The Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, USA.
Finally I have stopped trying to force-squeeze myself into a professional box. Jewelry can sensitize us as our taste evolves and we recognize limits—and prejudices. Adorning ourselves in tactile worn unique object, I think of jewelry as able to speak. It can speak of love (self-love included), union, loss and promise.
But it turned out I needed words too, in order to learn to live in the world. Years of dogged research into my family of origin—and a long break from the craft—is giving me a richer personal and historical understanding. A child of the history-free 1970s Swedish school had left me with a growing urge to ask questions I was unaware were brewing.
It took years and journeys to became content to slow down and land--in Stockholm, in Södermanland county. It took dogged research into my family of origin, it gives me a richer personal as well as historical perspective. I needed to root them out, try to answer them, in order to relax in an expanded understanding of where my fellow travelers and I stand.