when one thing ends another thing begins
There is a blurry area within the course of being a maker, a place where the jewellery is neither one thing nor the other, or belongs to either one place or another. I am fascinated with this space between; the space of process. Duality sits somewhere within my environment, making a piece of jewellery and…
detached in the observation of performance
‘It was like a movie’ always means something happened, you saw something happen right in front of you in an emotionally charged larger-than-life context. ‘It was like a movie’ can only ever mean that while you’re looking at what’s happening in front of you, you’ve also managed to step back from the experience, you’ve…
Opticks
Jewellery? It’s all in your perspective. The inter-relationships – connections and tensions – between science and art have been an ongoing source of inspiration. Not just the disciplines, their immediate concerns and broader contexts, but also how together they affect the way I think about and operate in the world. My studies in contemporary jewellery…
Wai…
Ko ahau te Wai, Ko te Wai ko ahau. I am the water and the water is me. I became aware of my need for water whilst traveling overseas. I was doing alot of walking around cities carrying and refilling my bottle along the way. In Rome I discovered the many “nasoni” water fountains with…
finding jewelleryness
i have repurposed a shelf in my office to look like a brick wall so that I can plan my installation of objects with jewelleryness at The Dowse.
the strangeness of things
For some time I have been taking the odd photo of the things that happen to cross our kitchen table. Living with engineers, the table becomes a place of exchange where objects are traded between us or as a temporary residence for objects; between them having been one thing, like a raw material, and them…
