I found the green rack abandoned on my street a matter of days before lockdown in March 2020. An artifact of the capitalist system made obsolete. Seeing it, I sensed an opportunity.
The rack was designed to hold 16 types of the same object, plus a sign. My neckpieces made from its parts borrow this logic, in the way they were built systemically, and using minimal extra material.
Neckpieces, each of about 800mm in circumference, were made section by section, from each individual row and arm from the rack. Each neckpiece was made unique by cutting the green steel into different lengths before welding on the linking chains. Then once the 800mm parameter was met, the leftover pieces were used as tassels for adornment.
In this way end each neckpiece is different, yet each, made from an arm or row, holds the same amount of green as another arm or row. And there’s still a place to display the works as I haven’t used all the rack. Yet.
Thanks capitalism.
