Shining DESPAIR
Marilyn Koch
USA

Necklace “We Are A Colony”, 2019
Nugold, synthetic teeth, clay, 280mm
Fabrication

We Are A Colony is an uncanny, but beautiful necklace constructed from over 38 sets of teeth.

Individually, they are small and uneasy to look at, but taken as a whole, we start to see them form their own rules and subdivisions. An homage to the power of the collective existing only by the willingness, nay the inclination, to conform.

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Shining Despair – Juan Riusech / Spain

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Shining Despair – Lily Pree / Greece

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Shining Despair – Minami Hiranuma / Japan

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Shining Despair – Sunyoung Cheong / USA

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