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
On view
The Goldsmiths' Centre
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
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
