pamela van kirk

Chainage

   The chainage began in 2020 during the Covid lockdown. 

The accumulation of future landfill began the rescue attempts and recreation of mankind's fickle neglect of anything precious.  It's all about the high.  Compulsive buying to feel good in a world that seems almost evil.  Much of this future landfill was lost jewelry, brokens chains, random charms and jewelry parts.  People would just give it to me, for two reasons: it was garbage, and I make pretty things out of garbage.            

The philosophy or meaning behind Chainage is symbolic for the nature of the human race to be "chained" or emotionally attached to their lifestyle systems that they have been taught. Chained to status, opinions, religious beliefs, political parties, freeways, burning fuel and on and on.  No one thinks about the future of the necklace they just had to have.  Most likely it will land in my pile.