I Confess That I Don't Miss You
2018
NECKPIECE (reclaimed steel, personal jewellery received or given as gifts as a child / young adult)
This piece was made especially for Gioielli in Fermento, VIII Edition (exhibited in the Master's Students Selection), on the theme "Private Moment and Social Interaction".
We exhaust relationships but hoard gifts. Hidden in drawers, these once private and public displays of affection are now nothing but their perceived material value. And yet the memories bother us, of friends we stopped calling, of love we thought would never end.
Making steel chain is the most intensely private act in my jewellery practice. It requires acoustic isolation, strength, delicacy, repetition and meditative patience. Zinc will protect the chain. Will it protect me from this public confession?
The charms chart important stages in my young life, and include gifts from my first important relationship and from very close, now-lost friends for important birthdays. The clasp is a brooch holding my first lost baby tooth, commissioned by my mother for my grandmother, who unfortunately was not the the easiest of people, and eventually returned to me at the time of her death.