cookies brooch, 2009, gold, ebony, resin, pigment, hair, 2.75 x 2.25 x 3/8, solitaire brooch, 2009, gold, ebony, resin, pigment, hair, 3.25 x 2 x .5, chocolate brooch, 2008, gold, ebony, resin, pigment, hair, 3.75 x 2.75 x 3/8
The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.
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