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Neckpiece: $1250 A truly unique piece in my output, No Room for Flowers is one of three neckpieces from the late 1990's that I'm pleased to offer for sale here for the first time. Idiosyncratic even by my own standards, Flowers features as its overall structure an antique work light; the cage at the bottom originally housed a small bulb. Now the cage protects its equally fragile contents: a seed pod, lined with a 200-year-old letter, sea-urching spines and glass balls. It always gives me a thrill to use utilitarian objects, and strip them of utility, while at the same time hearkening to another, perhaps metaphysical use. To reinforce this mystery of purpose, the piece rolls from side to side via the pulley system on top, but is unable to jump the brass track - this endows the piece with a dowser's sensibility: Pendulums such as a crystal or a metal weight suspended on a chain are sometimes used in divination and dowsing, particularly in remote or "map dowsing". - Wikipedia entry, 'Dowsing Equiupment' No Room for Flowers also has the dubious honor of being the first piece of mine ever to include a human tooth.
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