Melanie Honor Clarke - jewellery
Tiny beauty: seashell mechanics, fungi, seed pods, the patterns wind makes on sand. Nature decays and renews, exposing its complex structure. The forms I construct are in response to these things that are joyous in my world.
Noble metals and precious stones: rare and glorious, formed by the earth's hidden chemistry, folded into substance by its pressure. Strong and durable, yet sweetly yielding and malleable when worked in the right way.
My tools and practices join me to a tradition of jewellers and precious object makers reaching thousands of years through every civilisation on every populated continent. With these I make contemporary objects. Pieces so bedraggled and dirty in the making process are crafted to a rich, glowing beauty that shall continue long after me.
My passion captured in my work, is this what attracts others to the objects I create? Something in my work has drawn them. They wish to possess, to decorate their body, to treasure, to exalt someone they love.
My joy is yielding my work to others. My fascinations find resonance in someone else. The object is no longer mine.
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