Jewelry Generator

It is no longer genesis that we seek but instead the decipherment of what we are in light of what we are no longer.

-Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History…”

Jewelry Generator is a project by Leslie Shershow, for the virtual exhibition Digitally Yours, for NYC Jewelry Week 2020.

The Jewelry Generator is an extension of Leslie's Ultra-Memento Series, where the function of the souvenir was explored - how it feeds an impulse to capture and recall the past, while simultaneously altering it. Ultra-Memento was highly personal, as it recorded moments lived by Leslie and her family. The Jewelry Generator allows you to be an active participant in Ultra-Memento. It provides the opportunity to create your own memory souvenir, with the understanding that every time you recall a memory, it is altered just a little bit. As a recollection tool, it is born from the desire to freeze moments in time, but works to alter those moments due to personal, social, and political lived experiences.

This project was developed by Dan Szymanowski.

You are the gatekeeper to this memory.