Published research has come about through considering sites on and in the body at different archaeological layers (from outer to inner physical space) viz. orthotics, subdermal, exodermal, exo-corporeal and intracorporeal jewellery. These layers present a series of medical jewels that recognise science, jewellery and technology as accomplices to the repair and enhancement of the self while adding value to the mended body. Rather than only a medium for expression, the repaired or fixed body becomes a locus for experience, symbolism and aestheticisation – the jewel is understood as to both aestheticise the body (it becomes you) and become integrated and integral to the body. Olga Noronha (PI of the project) in her practice-based thesis, “becoming the body”, indexes an aesthetic enhancement of the body; naturalisation in the body – as a body replacement or part of it; completion or repair of the body and a prosthetic enhancement. By moving jewellery to surgical repair, the research and its practices test the boundary/edge of what jewellery is and is not, what it may mobilise, and how it may perform. The discursive-ness of the practice is defined by understanding how the different designs perform in different situations, provoking and rising questions that are both specific to and cross contrasting scenarios.