“I still feel the sensation of your fingers
The softness of your lips opening gently
To sip my warm nectar…
I wear fragments of many other lives
Gone for long now
But it is just a reminder
I am your cup of tea forever…”
“Discarded, rejected, amputated objects and porcelain.
I repair, mend, stitch. I make and I talk for the forgotten.”
I have been mudlarking porcelain shards on the beach for the last 2 ½ years.
I feel the need to pursue their story or create a new one, I feel the responsibility to be their voice.
Keeping their original shape and stains, I polish and drill them if I have to but, my intrusion in their bodies stays minimal.
Then, I adorn with beer cans from a closed down Auckland brewery in 2023 (only 6 precious cans left now…), raw Lapis Lazuli I polish, imperfect Freshwater Pearls, recycled Sterling and clasps remnants of my fashion time in costume jewellery, silk, cord.
My work is about reducing compulsive consumption by focusing on recycling/upcycling and rethinking the notion of preciousness…
Circular sustainability.
