Hewn

Hewn was made for the exhibition, Forging a Link: Metalsmiths Respond to the Mercer Collection (Mercer Museum, 2019) and inspired by the Mercer Museum’s collection’s pre-industrial artifacts, abundant with wooden tools bearing their makers’ marks. Hewn’s hyper-wrought surface is a form of propaganda - an elegy to skilled workers whose hands were on everything. I am deeply interested in the effects of craft and histories embedded in the made object.