Aurophobia - fear of gold

I was commissioned to make a gold neckpiece using seven hundred grams of fine gold. The metal was delivered to my workshop. I was overwhelmed to have such  a huge amount of gold to work with. I thought about the symbolism of gold in verbal language and decided to create rituals to capture the metaphoric use of the word 'gold' . I juxtaposed the gold with foods including kosher chicken. The gold was seemingly rendered quotidian by a ‘reverse' alchemical process and I was able to work with the gold and complete  the neckpiece.

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Beverley Price