Jewelling at the Edges, 2025

Top left to bottom:

Fallen Field, 2025.
Necklace. Pohutukawa leaves, faux pearls,
embroidery thread. Pukeahu, Wellington, NZ.

Hard Landing, 2025.
Necklace. Concrete, plastic coated garden wire, crystal beads.
Owhiro Bay, Wellington, NZ.

Brake Light, Stopped (Ngaio), 2025.
Brooch. Materials found during walk. Ngaio, Wellington, NZ.

Jewelling at the Edges, 2025

“From the footpath I noticed how the mailboxes on one street
leaned at a curious angle into an absent wind. I found the little community book
exchange built into the mossy bank near the dairy and wondered who else might
enjoy the books I’d never got around to reading. My eyes scanned the silent
windows of the old villas and squinted at the litter jewelling the edge of the park. I
picked up a shard of a broken brake light, stopped and held it to the light, and saw
the irony. I stepped only within the lines of the terracotta pavers and the bitumen
seams of past repairs, and finally I thought about how Admiralty Street got its
name.”

My creative research is concerned with the conditions through which a sense of
locality is generated. Locality, as I use the term, emerges through the places I pass
through repeatedly, and is not tied to a single address or stable site, but to the
contingent, experiential, and relational conditions through which encounters with
place unfold.