EXPERIENCE OF USING VISUAL ANALYTICS OF ACCESSORIES AND JEWELRY IN IMAGE BUILDING (PART 1)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to build a conceptual scheme for interpreting the colour and symbolic components of individual accessories and jewellery and to demonstrate this scheme using individual illustrative examples. In this part of the article, the author has implemented a visual-analytical study of some accessories. Several conclusions follow from the analysis. Firstly, accessories and decorations visualize shadow (unmanifested, unrealized) cultural and social identities of their owners. Visual images of accessories and decorations usually represent meanings and values that have not been actualized, realized, materialized in the experience of an individual and/or a social (cultural) group and in relation to which an individual and/or a social group experiences reversion (ressentiment in a negative aspect) affective complexes. Usually, such complexes include a mixture of pity/regret, sadness, melancholy, shame, unrealized grandiosity, vanity. Secondly, accessories and decorations in their structure reflect the listed identities with accompanying affective complexes and act as symbolic tools for maintaining the failed internalization of identities. They “report” on this failed internalization both to the subject-carrier and to his environment. Thirdly, accessories and decorations indicate the psychic system and simultaneously program it in terms of re-experiencing the failed (unfinished) experience in transferences-repetitions of both the individual and social levels.