Brenda Schweder, US
Brenda Schweder spins narratives of reinvention—curating and recombobulating disparate found objects into jewelry-sculpture and building new stories of whimsy, silly, and sass! She tells the tales of stumbled-upon discarded elements using her own secret-code lens of color and minimal engineering.
RiteSpeak comments on our current climate of extreme polarization of ideals and politics. One must, in my opinion [see, there I go again], couch almost everything one says in order to avoid offending. Perhaps this tie-on apparatus—a communication filter that reworks our verbiage into meanings the listener wants to hear—will protect us from the judgment and un-kindnesses we're currently facing?
Sandwich-shaped Tupperware, wooden sandwich toy, spiral notebook paper, waxed paper, wooden bead, nail polish, brass letters, cotton ribbon and string, thread, ink, dry-cleaning tag | Preparation, pierced, painted, written, assembled, knotted, sewn, written | 6" x 6" x 3"
Plaster bust, partial bird toy whistle, personal fan, leather, Iced Enamels, rhinestone jewelry pieces, waxed linen thread, glue | Pierced, assembled, sewn, crocheted, glued | 9" x 6" x 8"