CONSTANZE SCHREIBER
Statement
Nearly all of my works are inspired by antique jewellery pieces. At this moment I focus mainly on pieces out of the 19th and early 20th century. Their beauty and power fascinate me and I am intreged by their symbolic meanings.The symbolic meanings make the pieces so powerfull for me. They had a function in their time. By saying this I think of the protective amulets or the memento mori pieces, that remainded the wearer of his or her mortality. The symbols keept their meanings through the centurys. I believe that their is a crutial trouth in the symbols and archetypes of the past that still is valid today. I see them as attempts of the human beeing to give a form to essencial themes as love, live and death. In my works I am surching for a contemporary continuation of traditional jewelley pieces.