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 grandmother’s 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 flowing. 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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