Memory + Travel: PaTTAYa, Thailand

MEMORY + TRAVEL:  PATTAYA, THAILAND (2017)

As the Earth molds and moves under our feet, it softly calls to us. Location and wonder pulls us across the Earth to gaze upon it’s vistas and experience it’s cultures. Memory is a precious thing. It can fade and dull over time. Much like Victorian mourning jewelry, to wear these precious moments from the world around us helps keep their memory alive. This jewelry set is a part of an ongoing series that act as an extension of the ephemeral relationship with memory in relation to the places I’ve traveled and how I experienced them in an abstract way. 

Using a combination of traditional metal fabrication and new technology, I took patterns found in topographic maps of Pattaya, Thailand and proceeded to replicate, dissect, and rearrange them so that the shapes became a dynamic accumulation of form. These objects are made of a variety of materials that may include hand cut brass, silver, powdercoat, steel, and semi- precious stones. The laser engravings on the powdercoat are of those same topographic shapes. 


Pattaya, Thailand Necklace I

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, steel findings, paracord chain. Front view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace I

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, steel findings, paracord chain. Detail view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace I

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, steel findings, paracord chain. Detail view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace I

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, steel findings, paracord chain. Detail view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace I

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, steel findings, paracord chain. Detail of back view

Pattaya, Thailand Brooch

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, piano wire mechanism. Front view 

Pattaya, Thailand Brooch

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, piano wire mechanism. Back view 

Pattaya, Thailand Brooch

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules, lace agate, piano wire mechanism. Detail view 

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace II

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules. Top view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace II

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules. Detail view

Pattaya, Thailand Necklace II

(2017) Laser engraved powder coat, Brass base, bronze granules. On the Body

Pattaya, Thailand Stud Earrings

(2017) Brass base, laser engraved powder coat, Sterling silver findings

Pattaya, Thailand Lapel Pin

(2017) Brass base, laser engraved powder coat, stainless steel scatter pin back

On the Body

Installation