It has been longer than a week that I’ve been scratching my head over, ok right, reading and reflecting over why we turn to jewelry, precious stones, especially diamond to express our affection and most intimate feelings. Why do we love them? I have gone through Freudian psychoanalysis, researches and more – long story short, lots of reading and reflection. Result – lots of doubts, lots of belief system, but nothing for sure. Good part of it – we are free to build our own take. So, I am building this article on what makes sense to me. I’d love to hear your opinion and open up discussion about it.
I see some connection between love of jewelry and mythologically speaking “search of soul”. Please bear with me! I’ll develop my though processes step by step. It will be fun!
Throughout the history we have been decorating our bodies with jewelry – the most primitive ones being bones or other parts of animals our ancestors killed. In retrospect, it is easy to see that the early jewelry was not for decoration, rather affirmation of “commitments” or “life journey” of the tribal members.
Keyword: Petrification
So jewelry was born as something more than means of decoration. Its role was to kind of “freeze in time” the life journey of the bearer of that primal jewelry. This thought makes me remember two things – how the ephemerality of life made philosophers wrestle for ages with the question of death and meaning of life and “petrification” an important word in mythology which means “hardening into stone”. (the Root coming from pietra/piedra – stone). And this reminds me of monuments – when we want to make something or someone to be remembered eternally, we build a monument – we eternalize or immortalize it.
You can read the full article at the Design & Fashion section of FoodConfidential.it
