blind date

blind date detail

Blind Date

open as table, closed with legs folded (front and back) as pendant

Object/jewellery,
small table/locket/necklace

milled wax/cast silver, silver, patina, acrylic, ink on vellum, paper

6.8 w x 1.5 h (folded) x 1.5 d cm and 6.3 cm tall as standing table.

2010

The idea of being blind, literally and figuratively is explored using cultural artifacts while  A Victorian medical practice is re-examined in a contemporary context. Blind Date is a date between two people who have never met. In this piece, I’ve taken an illustration from “The History of Gynaecology “ of a male doctor examining a woman, from the late 1800s. Etiquette required no eye contact during touching and often no talking was permitted.  The pendant folds out into a free standing table that references a dinner date. The table top opens, to reveal that it is also a locket with an awkward, intimate moment illustration.