Fiona Carswell

Stickable Body Marks

I have always been interested in the personal meaning that jewelry can hold, and a wearer’s perceptions about what certain jewelry says about them as an individual. Jewelry is often meant to enhance the wearer's uniqueness or express a certain individuality in the wearer. But most jewelry is mass-produced, with no regard to the individual.

Stickable Body Marks was an exploration of a series of adornments that relate directly to the wearers' physical abnormalities and call attention to their individual uniqueness from other people. The series of moles, scars, and birthmarks can be worn either stuck to the skin or pinned to clothing and serve as a conversation piece about the wearer’s relationship to their own body and its adornment.

Fiona Carswell. Stickable Body Marks, 2006. Cloth, thread, glue, pins.