| Materials | Necklace. 2021. Shakudo, sterling silver, fine silver, 18K royal gold, shibuichi, platinum, 22K gold. Constructed and inlaid. |
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| Dimensions | 20” length x 1/8” deep |
| Price | Inquire for price |
Description
SHATTERED
When our lives have been shattered, we cling to an amalgam of memory fragments. We experience loss, and are left only with broken shards of what had once been. A familiar place, a tie or handkerchief, a ring or photograph, strewn among confused patterns in the mind. They are intermingled – the good and bad, the ugly and the beautiful.
Patterns are dear to my heart, which is why I used them to express the fragments of memory that persist after a loss. Part-to-whole relationships has been a consistent theme in my work through the years, where ordered components represent a larger theme or structure. Shattered presents the inverse perspective of this relationship: that the whole, once broken, cannot be reconstituted from its parts. I was initially reluctant to begin this project because it represents discord rather than unity, but loss is a part of life and this piece presents that reality.
