If not for the
ability to travel a girl from Birmingham and a boy from Baghdad would never
have met.My parent’s
story mirrors that of Emperor Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of Babylon and his
wife Queen Amytis. To cure her homesickness he built her the Hanging Gardens of
Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Sunflowers and
date palms are imprinted on my mother’s memories of the foreign landscape she
was surrounded by. Whilst she may
have left, a precious collection of jewellery received from my father is still
in her possession.
Referencing
those forms I have constructed a collection of earrings that are factitious
versions of tribal jewellery, hanging from the wearer as the flora of the
mythic gardens may have.
‘They bear fruit’
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
7cm x 10cm x 5cm (each)
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
7cm x 10cm x 5cm (each)
‘Of every kind’
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
5.5cm x 8.5cm x 2cm (each)
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
5.5cm x 8.5cm x 2cm (each)
‘Constructed growth’
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
8cm x 13.5cm x 4cm (each)
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
8cm x 13.5cm x 4cm (each)
‘Plants above ground’
2014
Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
7cm x 8cm x 4cm (each)
2014
Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
7cm x 8cm x 4cm (each)
‘A Creation’
2014
2014
Ear weights
Brass, metal ink.
10cm x 14cm x 2cm (each)
Brass, metal ink.
10cm x 14cm x 2cm (each)
‘Grown for the beholder’
2014
Ear bars
Brass, metal ink.
8cm x 19cm x 1cm (each)
2014
Ear bars
Brass, metal ink.
8cm x 19cm x 1cm (each)
‘Cultivated in the air’
2014
Ear cuff
Brass, metal ink.
6cm x 8cm x 4cm
2014
Ear cuff
Brass, metal ink.
6cm x 8cm x 4cm
‘Imprinted Flora’
2015
Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
10 cm x 15cm x 3cm (each)
‘Foreign landscape’
2015
Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
10cm x 13cm x 4cm
(each)