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by Chelsea Rowe
My work emerges from intense longing for the social connection that I believe human nature embodies. My practice turned inward to understand my own relationships as I recontextualize mundane objects and materials that belonged to my grandmother, imagining new lives for them. Hair rollers, honey, and honey bees are imbued with memory and turn forgotten objects into new entities. A box contains a hair curler still infused with the scent of my grandmother. A hollow beeswax brooch freezes a honey bee in time, motionless. My grandmother’s hair curler is preserved in honey. Making these pieces allows me to distill a yearning for, and connection to, a person into objects.
Grandma’s hair curler, wood, sterling silver, copper
7 x 4 x 3 cm
2022
Hold
by Chelsea Rowe
My work emerges from intense longing for the social connection that I believe human nature embodies. My practice turned inward to understand my own relationships as I recontextualize mundane objects and materials that belonged to my grandmother, imagining new lives for them. Hair rollers, honey, and honey bees are imbued with memory and turn forgotten objects into new entities. A box contains a hair curler still infused with the scent of my grandmother. A hollow beeswax brooch freezes a honey bee in time, motionless. My grandmother’s hair curler is preserved in honey. Making these pieces allows me to distill a yearning for, and connection to, a person into objects.
Grandma’s hair curler, wood, sterling silver, copper
7 x 4 x 3 cm
2022
Hold
by Chelsea Rowe
My work emerges from intense longing for the social connection that I believe human nature embodies. My practice turned inward to understand my own relationships as I recontextualize mundane objects and materials that belonged to my grandmother, imagining new lives for them. Hair rollers, honey, and honey bees are imbued with memory and turn forgotten objects into new entities. A box contains a hair curler still infused with the scent of my grandmother. A hollow beeswax brooch freezes a honey bee in time, motionless. My grandmother’s hair curler is preserved in honey. Making these pieces allows me to distill a yearning for, and connection to, a person into objects.
Grandma’s hair curler, wood, sterling silver, copper
7 x 4 x 3 cm
2022