The concept behind Legg’s work focusses on the emotional connection that people have with a place which is known as “topophilia” (Legg 2012:46). Legg creates jewellery pieces that speak about the emotional connection that she has with her home town and she does this by making jewellery pieces that resemble landscapes that she photographs while taking walks. Legg explains that feelings of strong emotion can be experienced after an external sensory stimulus or through an internal interpretation of a memory that is sparked by an object we encounter (Legg 2012:36). The textures, forms and colours that Legg incorporates in her pieces evoke the same emotions that she experienced in a place (Damasio 1999:58).
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| Legg, B (2013). Sketchbook Pages Drawings Page 180 [ONLINE] |
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