‘Intangible Mass’

Artist Statement

Personal experiences of the self and the body are central to this series of works. Themes of isolation, emotional decay, and the fragility of our minds during a long period of quarantine, have directed the making of this work. In a reflective and reactive response to a year or more of detachment from others, these pieces of jewellery demonstrate internal sentiments, projected outwards into material, capturing sense impressions of the maker, intended to engulf and adorn the body with objects that represent these otherwise intangible qualities.

Disconnection from people has been replaced with interconnection to wider nature and these designs are partly motivated by photographic records of daily escapes into natural places, particularly in the winter months. The photographs in-directly replicate feelings in a conceptual sense, as extremely fragile, the environmental and emotional state become combined in a decorative, corporeal and expressive perception, a ‘mingling of bodies’, as described by philosopher, Michel Serres, in his book, The Five Senses.

Materials such as distorted brass and oxidised copper appear within the collection to create a heavy and weighted conceptual component, that seeks to provoke the senses of both viewer and wearer. Physical mass and length of the pieces are key in translating such thought processes and the manipulation of metal stems from emotive, physical, reactions as a form of release, therapeutic repetitive action. As with the performative aspects of works by German choreographer, Pina Bausch, that create moving, eerie, evocative and surreal moments in time and space. These jewellery pieces encompass a performative role, animated by their affective abilities.

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