Shining DESPAIR
Laurel Fulton
USA
Brooch “Variable function 1”
Silver, steel and acrylic, 40x75x10mm
Cast and fabricated
Brooch “Variable Function 2”
Silver, steel and acrylic, 80x40x10mm
Cast and fabricated
These brooches visually refer to what appear to be functioning systems or bodies. Funnels receiving input, tubes and pipes relaying one thing to another and receptacles containing some unnoted substance. Yet these small systems do not function but instead are small portraits of dysfunction and untenable parts referencing our inability to truly understand one another.
Although there is despair in our misunderstanding of one another there is also the beauty in the differences between us. Without this difference, without variation there is sameness and replication. Both of which do not allow for diversity of thought, expression of nonconformity. We all function differently.