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Comment by The Justified Sinner on March 29, 2011 at 2:58pm

Thanks, Catherine! Glad it appeals.

Comment by Catherine Witherell on March 29, 2011 at 2:45pm

WOW!

Comment by Miriam Rowe on March 17, 2011 at 5:18pm

I'm sending you a message relating to this now....

Comment by The Justified Sinner on March 16, 2011 at 2:51pm

Thanks, Miriam.

I was really upset when Alexander McQueen died as I had been plucking up courage to write to him and had finally decided to do so when the horrible event happened. It was actually this piece which made me think of approaching him in the first place.

 

I would love to accessorise a fashion shoot!

A very high-profile "gay" publication approached me some time ago about doing a shoot and I thought that it was a good idea so met with the photographer and his assistant and we agreed that we would shoot on a bunch of real bikers wearing what they would normally wear on their bikes (no models). I loved the idea but the magazine had a hissy fit: apparently that was "not the sort of image the magazine wishes to portray". Alas! I can easily imagine the sort of skinny, plucked, vapid sort that they wanted, so then it was my turn to have a hissy fit and the shoot never happened. 

 

I'll be in touch the next time I'm in Birmingham.

Comment by Miriam Rowe on March 16, 2011 at 3:13am

*gasp* I am absolutely in love with this piece! I could see an entire fashion shoot based around this necklace- it's stunning.

Comment by The Justified Sinner on November 25, 2010 at 3:15pm

Brigitte, the comparison in this case is absolutely apposite as it was my intention to make a piece deliberately reminiscent of this work (which I love). The idea came to me as I was trying to find a Berlin Iron cameo in the flea-market in Brussels without any success. I'd been trying to find one for ages to use in my own work and it was pure chance that I found the central element of this piece on the ground when I had just been thinking about Berlin Ironwork.

The name of the piece comes from the tradition of stamping Berlin ironwork with "Ich gaben Gold für Eisen", "I gave gold for iron".
Mine translates as "I gave no gold for this iron"!
Another of those silly jokes I often make with titles.

Comment by Brigitte Martin on November 25, 2010 at 6:35am

Your work sometimes reminds me of Berlin (Victorian) Iron Jewelry. Do you think that is a good comparison ?