Factitious Tribal

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)


 ‘Of every kind’
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)


 ‘Plants above ground’
2014

Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
7cm x 8cm x 4cm (each)


‘A Creation’
2014
Ear weights
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)


 ‘Cultivated in the air’
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)

 
 
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Foreign landscape’
2015
Ear weights
Brass, copper, metal ink.
10cm x 13cm x 4cm  (each)