Elaine Unzicker
Artist Statement
Elaine Unzicker creates attractive, wearable objects combining jewelry techniques with chain mail to caress the female body. As a child, she was taught to be quiet and not express herself even though she noticed creativity flowing through her grandmothers’ fingers in the form of quilt making. She finds her voice when creating art through the meditative state of linking one ring at a time. When knitted with small rings of thin metal wire, this masculine, war-like material becomes extremely soft and owing. The ritual of laying the transparent veil of chain mail or Metal Lace as she likes to call it on a woman invokes a sense of security and a feeling of empowerment. Her creations are a merging of art and history in the intimate setting of a woman’s body.
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