Reeled out

The development of the Transformation necklace from the starting idea of a cable reel to the finished piece using sewing machine bobbins.

Whilst working on this movie, I was thinking about Richard Serra's comments on his work Band - that, for the viewer as they walk along it, inside and outside are continually exchanging, and that the structure creates new spaces within the architecture of the room. 

Similarly, jewellery as body adornment interacts with the surface of the body, and large pieces, especially, change that surface.

I am fascinated by the way Serra's work intrigues viewers: the overall form of his structures can only be appreciated when viewed from above; however, at ground level, the structures have an almost tactile quality that still attracts the viewer to walk all around them, to explore the curves and the hidden spaces close up.

I'd like to create that same attraction and intrigue in my work, whether viewed from a distance or close up.