The recent fashion for jewellery featuring keys has made me realise that I am fascinated by keys. They are intriguing. They come in thousands of variations – from big, heavy and functional to tiny, delicate and filigree’d. But this is only half of their fascination for me. A key is the answer to a riddle: the riddle of the lock.
A key is one half of a puzzle; one half of an act that will unlock something – a door, a wardrobe, a box, a gate, a house, a room, a shed, a trunk, a chest, a vehicle …
A key is a solution to the problem of the lock.
Keys are information, and as such they are power. The information contained in the shape of a small piece of metal decides whether or not we can enter or open the thing in front of us.
Keys are also riddles: what is the other half of the puzzle? We have the key – where or what is the lock? Keys are passwords; they give us access. If we have the key, we have the answer; the question is, what is the question?
Having just re-thought the branding of my Silverlight Jewellery line (again ... don't ask!), I have decided that keys will feature heavily. After all, they are so attractive ... and so intriguing. They have both an aesthetic beauty and an intellectual beauty. One must always feel a little mysterious when one has a key secreted on one's person; no?
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