Jennifer Crupi studied at Cooper Union and now teaches metalwork at Kean University in New Jersey. Her body of work is all about body language: sterling silver devices that lock you into gestures, working off the idea that holding a pose can make you actually feel it.

Ornamental Hands: Figure One is a set of fine chains and finger braces that hang from a wrist cuff and hold your hand, marionette-style, in one of those elegant poses from old portraits. It works like a splint, getting your fingers to sit just so. It’s in the Smithsonian collection now. Slip it on and your hand looks like it belongs in a painting.