2019
Core-Cast, Hand-Polished, Cut Crystal / 24-Carat Gold Mirror
16.25” x 9.75” x 3” / 11” x 11.5” x 3.75”
The noun, ‘Golden Thread’ refers to an idea or feature that is present in all parts of something, holding it together and giving it value. Individuals have coined the term to metaphorically suggest that all of nature is bound and interconnected, and that our actions can have a ‘ripple effect’ throughout time and space. The continuous thread of knotted rope seen in ‘The Golden Thread’, 2019 can only be seen when the three cast glass decanters are placed in a linear sequence, acting as a landscape to the mirrored details within them. The work gives tangibility to the invisible threads that link us, the golden rope floating within decanters that were once used as vessels for spirits. In the words of Valentine Worth, “the physical and the immaterial are all connected - each exerting influence on the next - bound, as it were, by chains of analogy - magnetic chains. Every decision, every action mirrors, ripples, reflects and echoes throughout the whole of creation. The world is indeed bound with secret knots”.