Badge on wall mounted board.
Timothy Information Limited (bloody pretentious name) received two old/vintage/antique/retro/veteran plated steel hair clips in the post from renowned UK jewellery artist Jo Pond. Two beautiful, functioning, but redundant, objects (the hairclips, not Jo!). Beauty from a lustre imbued by the passage of time over years of dedicated service. Redundant, because rust had found ways to creep through the manufacturer’s barrier against it, meaning they would probably never sculpt freshly washed hair ever again. The initial focus, for the aforementioned artist, was to retain the functional and visual identity of the hair clips. After all, attachment to the body is a very beautiful jewellery thing. The next focus was to introduce a new pertinent role for the hair clip’s own skill set. Him, in the workshop, considered how in Jo’s practice she will often take a piece of the past and give it a place in the present, which prompted an idea to meet her halfway, but from the other direction, i.e. taking a piece of the future and offering it a place in the present. And so, ‘7 Random Days in the Future’ was born, a jeopardy within an unknown future. The brooch is designed to be worn 7 times, only on the 7 indicated days in the future. Who and where will those wearers be. Will the future even make it to the last random date (Tues 11th Jan 2118)?
Materials: Found Objects (Hairclips), Paper, Greyboard, Brass, Cellulose Paint, MDF.
Brooch dimensions: 235 x 75 mm, display board dimensions: 297 x 210 mm.
Timothy Information Limited, what does that even mean, it is not like a proper human name or anything, anyway, Timothy Information Limited is a jewellery making man, well, and other things like art things as well, and he also plays loud tuneless punk music, but that isn’t really making real things is it, however, I, the third person, digress, he lives and works in Penge, which is at the bottom of London, I tell you what, he’s made some right old corking jewellery stuff, but a lot of it is abroad, over the seas, he’s a bit like the band Bush, no-one really knows who he is over here, which is a shame, as he possesses a quirky English type humour, in the vein of past comedy greats, like the Goons, like I, the third person, said previously in my essay, he is a punk, but he doesn’t dress like a punk, which makes you think.