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Traces of the Past
“The single-frame picture of a caterpillar does not foretell its transformation into a butterfly.” – R. Buckminster Fuller (The American Scholar, 1970)
Story
This series initially came about from a desire to do something with all the leftover fragments from other work – to make unique designs that feature, rather than hide, their scars, dents, industrial stamps, and so on. Of course a lot of my work is about the metamorphosis of salvaged or offcut metals into pretty new things, but this series explicitly gives the stage to the history of the scraps, showcasing their ‘traces of the past’ and honouring the old instead of going for a complete makeover.
The Traces of the Past earrings are probably my favourite pieces to make. They’re experimental in form, with compositions created ‘just so’. Since I can make them anywhere – requiring just some basic tools and scraps – I make most of them outside during the summer. I also imagine them being worn outside, freely moving with the wind.
Form
Mostly free-spirited kinetic jewels for a warm summery night, like dangly mobile earrings with abstract compositions featuring a multitude of my favourite forms. They’re often asymmetrical and made from mixed metals with marks of time, like dents and oxidation. One way or another, the components with a history are highlighted and integral to the design.
Technique
Traces of the Past jewels are hand-fabricated, working mostly off-the-grid and outdoors, primarily with a saw, file, and hammer (with the exception of some necklaces that had to be soldered). The jewels are polished with sandpaper and in an electric rock tumbler.
Material
Salvaged or offcut scrap metals, usually with some scars from a prior life, including brass, bronze, aluminium and zinc, and iron wire from used champagne muselets (wire cages). Sometimes I add vintage beads.
“Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past.” – T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets, 1943)
01 Jewels/
Traces of the Past
“The single-frame picture of a caterpillar does not foretell its transformation into a butterfly.” – R. Buckminster Fuller (The American Scholar, 1970)
Story
This series initially came about from a desire to do something with all the leftover fragments from other work – to make unique designs that feature, rather than hide, their scars, dents, industrial stamps, and so on. Of course a lot of my work is about the metamorphosis of salvaged or offcut metals into pretty new things, but this series explicitly gives the stage to the history of the scraps, showcasing their ‘traces of the past’ and honouring the old instead of going for a complete makeover.
The Traces of the Past earrings are probably my favourite pieces to make. They’re experimental in form, with compositions created ‘just so’. Since I can make them anywhere – requiring just some basic tools and scraps – I make most of them outside during the summer. I also imagine them being worn outside, freely moving with the wind.
Form
Mostly free-spirited kinetic jewels for a warm summery night, like dangly mobile earrings with abstract compositions featuring a multitude of my favourite forms. They’re often asymmetrical and made from mixed metals with marks of time, like dents and oxidation. One way or another, the components with a history are highlighted and integral to the design.
Technique
Traces of the Past jewels are hand-fabricated, working mostly off-the-grid and outdoors, primarily with a saw, file, and hammer (with the exception of some necklaces that had to be soldered). The jewels are polished with sandpaper and in an electric rock tumbler.
Material
Salvaged or offcut scrap metals, usually with some scars from a prior life, including brass, bronze, aluminium and zinc, and iron wire from used champagne muselets (wire cages). Sometimes I add vintage beads.
“Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past.” – T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets, 1943)
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