To My Bruces / Tears of an Oyster

From the exhibition Words and Works from a World Away; Curator - Claire McArdle

2013

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Made in response to on of 30 collected statements by Estonian artists: 10. They're all named Bruce. They have sharks and despair and swimming knives. Also 5-foot spiders. –Janno

To My Bruces, or, Tears of an Oyster Depicting Bruce, my husband, with a pearl from Bruce, my dad, with sharks and despair and swimming knives. Oh, and the Bruce depicted is the body of the huntsman.

What is a pearl it not the despair of an oyster?

chrome-plated cigarette case (with a map of Australia on it), stainless steel, 925 silver, Broome pearl

43 x 22 x 14mm pendant on a 560mm chain, case 130 x 90 x 10mm