Footnotes

Footnotes, 2025

From artist’s handbag or person: comb, gum boot sole, reading glasses lenses, headphones, chewing gum; found materials from area code 6035: kowhai seeds, acorn cup, akeake seed pod, lichen, cabbage tree leaves, cotton thread, steel wire, plastic twine; vintage jewellery: faux pearls, shell cameo, safety chain; detritus from workshop.

Working at the intersection of contemporary jewellery and site-responsive installation, Footnotes explores the tension between adornment and attunement—interventions that quietly disrupt and blur the boundaries between identity, grounded materiality, and objecthood. The encounter is intimate, disorienting, and attuned to the layered histories that linger in our collective memory. Traced through subtle placement and material sensitivity, viewers are invited to look closely and question what is seen, what is overlooked, and how we locate ourselves — particularly within everyday places shaped by the nuances of colonial legacy and ecological trace, where taken-for-granted perspectives often go unexamined.