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MM,001 by Melissa McNeil

Earrings / Conceptual

Published: 03.06.2020

Earrings: MM,001 by Melissa McNeil.Imagined in white precious metal.. 2020.Approx. 10 x 5 cm.
. Statement: Fossils are the remnants of previous lives lived, the ossified remains of a once vital life force, now petrified and suspended within a many-layered crust or hardened stone. Rather than encounter the fossil as a ‘dead’ entity, however, in my practice, fossils represent the spark of life, memories of life as it once was. The particular tactility of these objects and their display as palaeontology, entomology, and archaeology, provide an especially appealing aesthetic quality, easily transferable and reproducible as objects of jewellery, in precious metals. In a sense, my design process is an attempt to create a ‘micro-museum’ of personal, often nostalgic memories, with meanings that are both individual and universal..

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