Mantel

Altered collected object (clock case, with crocheted human hair and steel wire) The piece references Victorian hair mourning jewellery (the art of using hair and wire to create elaborate woven jewellery) and the loss of loved ones. The jewellery was worn largely in remembrance and love, and was a mainly feminine task, not only about loss, but also sentiment, emotion and showing how you are related to others. The art work is made with the mantelpiece, the hearth, the heart of the home in mind. The empty centre is the loss and connectedness of loved ones (those who have passed) and the curl of hair/locket is a child, the one who is left: the circle complete.