Twist It Yourself (J66)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

Title

Twist It Yourself

Made in

Portland

Date

1974

Description

Twisted threads of gold, yellow, orange, red, blue and green, with a silver hook clasp.

Materials and techniques

The hemp is whipped with the embroidery threads.

Dimensions

diameter:  13.3cm

Object number

J66

Category

  • Twist It Yourself, David Poston, 1975, Crafts Council Collection: J66. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography.

Maker's statement

[WARNING: This piece was MEANT to be a joke];
Fed up with endless mindless shipping and work in general, and enjoying the memory of the rings you couldn't put on in Electrum's Dutch "Revolt in Jewellery" exhibition, I was going to make this a complete quoil, impossible to put on. However, my financial conscience nagged me, so I compromised and made it ALMOST impossible to put on - but wearable if anything/ one was SILLY enough is want to. As a practical necklace, therefore, it is, on purpose, a disaster. But as a form form a necklace ignoring the problem of getting it on. It would be nice to make a practical version.

Davis Poston, 20 February 1978