Jewelry: The Real World And The Inner World Of Self-symbolic Integration

In the past centuries, the heads of tribes as majority who adorned jewelry evolved to be royal nobles, then evolved to be current modern people who aspire for individual symbol. From the valuable metal, rare gem to the utilization of all kind of current newly developed material, magnificent change about owners and material and subject had happened, but the spiritual demand that decided by our physiology, psychology, society and culture never changed.The jewelry that appeared in our daily social life have inborn conditions to trigger associations as symbol, as mark, as emblem, jewelry could be token with the same character as the era has, which exist in human subconsciousness, the spirit core to own and take jewelry is a emblematic complex which is difficult to disappear. The will to flaunt, to get other's attention by unique jewelry last from ancient era till now, collective subconciousness make such will settled down at inward corner, along with the ages evolved, the jewelry is no longer the appearance of unfair society or wealth monopoly. The evolution of jewelry is correspondent with social ideology, and showed the result of rehearsing the evolution in human sense of worth. In the society which focused more on "human being", unique emotion expression became a tool to show the status difference and self-approval.In the current society, extremely abundant material breed human's more and more multiple spiritual requirement, all kinds of thought, emotion, aspiration embodied in modern jewelry design, thus causing new emblematic phenomenon such as psychological emblem. Such emblematic is neither normal wealth symbol, nor the other traditional symbol, it is completely a reflection of a kind of emotional state in pursuing current jewelry arts. It is difficult to identify these conceptual jewelry as which emblem it belong to, but it indeed represent a kind of philosophy conceptual symbol, making people perceive the world by experiencing the complication, or dignified consideration, or strange consternation.Modern jewelry is no longer based on esthetic, moreover on straight life, on inward world. In modern jewelry art, jewelry no longer be the status symbol, neither depending on personal feeling, it could be concluded that the jewelry has became as much a kind of thought carrier with intensive symbolization.