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In mid January we published an article on the blog called Original Display. It was an article about Bruce Metcalf’s show using silhouettes of people painted on the wall with jewelry adorning them and he claimed that this was an original idea. I asked if anyone knew about a similar one from the past. Evidently Helen Drutt told Bruce that she thought Gijs Bakker had done something similar and so with some research (thank you, Kerianne Quick) we came up with this image from a Gijs Bakker’s show called Jablonec, held in 1968 in the Czech Republic. The silhouettes were on mirrors with jewelry attached. This idea was used again in 2010 at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design in the show Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…? So what do you think? Similar? The same? Original or not?