Slow Jewelry

Obsessed as I am with Junk Jewelry, I see parallels and references to it everywhere.

In an article in the Home section of the New York Times last week there was an article (“The Slow Life Picks Up Speed” by Penelope Green) about Slow Design, which is similar to the Slow Food movement “which essentially challenges one to use local ingredients harvested and put together in a socially and environmentally responsible way. Above all it emphasizes slowness in the creation and consumption of products as a corrective to the frenetic pace of 21st-century life.”

Which is what junk jewelry does as well! I’ve owned the keys in this necklace, for example, for so long I no longer know what they lock. They’ve been waiting to be used for years. I've taken years to do something with them. Slow jewelry!