I can't even string a sentence together. Or, why wear words

This PhD by portfolio contributes to the field of jewellery and, more widely to applied art in ways which are positional, methodological, and poetic. Substantiated by a 'jewellery thinking' which shifts away from the socially mechanistic approach of the Body/Wearer/Viewer/Object dynamic towards a type of art-as/is-jewellery production which implicitly and explicitly explores the materialities of words and meanings inherent in jewellery. Three questions emerged over the fourteen years of practice which interrogate why and how we wear words, how things/meaning/words take form and how one might write a 'thing'.