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Carrie Yodanis is a jeweler and sociologist. She makes and writes about jewelry as a way to share ideas about the social world. She’s a professor at the University of British Columbia, where she studies and teaches about art and inequality.
![Can jewelry make us happy? It might seem strange to think of jewelry, an object, as being able to do anything. But the jewelry we wear affects us. As Melanie Holcomb wrote in Jewelry: The Body Transformed, “[Jewelry] stands at the center of a whole range of social interactions, in which it too is a player.” Reference: Melanie Holcomb, ed., Jewelry: The Body Transformed (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018). | Felieke Van Der Leest, Bridge Face: Happy Metal, 2021, silver, violin bridge (maple), cubic zirconia, paint, photo: Eddo Hartmann](https://artjewelryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/8-Felieke-Van-Der-Leest-800-x-600.jpg "Can jewelry make us happy? It might seem strange to think of jewelry, an object, as being able to do anything. But the jewelry we wear affects us. As Melanie Holcomb wrote in Jewelry: The Body Transformed, “[Jewelry] stands at the center of a whole range of social interactions, in which it too is a player.” Reference: Melanie Holcomb, ed., Jewelry: The Body Transformed (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018). | Felieke Van Der Leest, Bridge Face: Happy Metal, 2021, silver, violin bridge (maple), cubic zirconia, paint, photo: Eddo Hartmann")
![Of Laura Forte’s ring + cube emoticon, Munich Jewelry Week posted, “Emoticons and emojis … are the mirror of our always-connected society and open the frontier of communication without language barriers. …[B]ehind those symbols there is much more than a simple message; they can reveal details of the personality of those who use them.” Reference:
@munichjewelleryweek, May 17, 2021. | Laura Forte, Cube Emoticon, 2020, cube + ring, silver, rubber, colored zircons, photo: artist](https://artjewelryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/25-Laura-Forte-800-x-600.jpg "Of Laura Forte’s ring + cube emoticon, Munich Jewelry Week posted, “Emoticons and emojis … are the mirror of our always-connected society and open the frontier of communication without language barriers. …[B]ehind those symbols there is much more than a simple message; they can reveal details of the personality of those who use them.” Reference:
@munichjewelleryweek, May 17, 2021. | Laura Forte, Cube Emoticon, 2020, cube + ring, silver, rubber, colored zircons, photo: artist")
