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My Kinda Gold Series
2015 - ongoing
PINS (ethically-produced, organic, non or vegetable-dyed, starch or beeswaxed hemp twine, pebble, stainless steel)

Simple pebbles appeared in my work very early on as my way of expressing the human condition: all the same and yet all different, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, individual charisma and flaws. I had often played with the idea of containment to try and represent the way our environment enfolds us. Starting in my Earth series with long tentacle-like prong settings and slowly evolving into the creation of a vessel, these wrapping forms have always been suggestive of both a hug and a prison.
My first attempts at a vessel were mostly in metal wire, often stainless steel, either folded over itself (in a construction similar to "A Cackling Riot of Tasteless Lines") or crocheted. This technique was in itself an important development of the process, the basics of which I had learnt as a child during my after-school stays at the local nuns' college, where I very much felt as I was at once being loved and protected and held against my wish. In "De-Liberate" I had represented the turning of a big page in my journey, both emotionally as an individual and artistically as a maker, and the vessel became one of pure gold.
Eventually, I realised that to hold such humble and yet highly meaningful objects, I wanted to find a material that was like gold without being actual gold and, after much research into the production and sourcing of natural yarns, I came across the organic hemp from Canadian company Rawganique, one of the most ethically sound products and companies I have ever come across.
As no stone needs to be precious to have value, nothing and no-one has to be gold to be golden.
This is an ongoing series, and items from it are available to buy in the Shop.
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