Melanie Bilenker

Brooch (2006)
2 1/4" x 1 7/8" x 3/8"5.7 x 4.7 x 1 cm
Materials: Gold, sterling silver, boxwood, epoxy resin, pigment, hair(Photo: K. Yanoviak)


"The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments."

http://www.melaniebilenker.com/