INSIGHT magazine: CRAFTSMANSHIP
Fortunate Bones
by Bernadette Higgins
Minotauress Fortunate Bones is a jewelry line and ongoing art experiment, comprised of artisanal handcrafted pieces. A stylistic marriage between old and new, rough and refined, Fortunate Bones aims to make jewelry that evokes a mysterious family heirloom found after decades in a tiny locked box. Bernadette incorporates her love of animals, nature and myth into her work, and hopes that her jewelry may bring the wearer a feeling of peace, empowerment and home.
Bernadette Higgins approaches her craft from the discipline of sculpture. She began teaching herself to work with her jeweler’s bench in 2012, and her jewelry is made according to a self-developed, ritualistic method. www.fortunatebones.squarespace.com 74 | www.fokus.org