Steel Series I: Wearing Witness by Anne Havel

Wall Piece

Enamel, steel, graphite, wood, earth magnets, paint

Sgraffito, limoges, graphite. altho a wall piece, the 9 squares are all brooches

17.5 x 19 x1 inches

Constant sensory overload plagues and directs my enameling and metalsmithing pursuits as they express current brain-dominating subject matter. Frequent mind disturbances include nuclear power, planet degradation, molecular & cellular level structures & creatures, mathematical pursuits, and all their inter-connectedness. Utilizing the similar geometries that the cellular to the geological possess, I attempt to resolve and bear witness to the litany of currently mourned planetary assaults using abstract or geometric drawings to express inner turbulence.

Perhaps from a very simplistic view, the world seems to boil down to a few “roots of all evil” and yet, earth, in its own majesty, is built on very sound mathematical principles. My work is a constant expression of how these “trouble spots” intertwine with all the beauty that geometry creates in our daily lives.