Internal Dialogue

Learning to read people is difficult at the best of times. Body language, ethnicity, religious background, gender issues, socio-economic backgrounds and upbringing all play a part in how we communicate and understand others. People don’t come with manuals nor are they open books.

This brooch speaks into the problems and limitations that all people have interacting with others. It is a fully functioning book form, utilising double needle Coptic binding, acknowledging the reality that people are not as easy to read as books. The use of x-rays as the pages, references the irony that we have the ability to see inside people’s physical bodies, but we have very little that shows accurately how human beings feel, love, desire, or hope. The way that the pages force the book to spread questions the wisdom of being an ‘open book’. Learning to communicate effectively really is an ‘art form’!

2019

Steel, X-Ray, Linen Thread, Powder Coating

13.5 x 2.5 x 10 cm

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