Cast from chicken skin using the lost-wax casting process, this bronze cuff preserves an inherently fragile and ephemeral material into a solid and stable one.

The casting preserves the skin’s wrinkles, folds, pores, and irregularities, recording the textures of a surface that was once living and subject to continual change. In bronze, these fleeting qualities become a material trace and hold together different temporalities: the brief life of the organic material, the moment of its transformation through casting, and the extended duration of the bronze object.

When worn, the cuff introduces another temporal and spatial dimension. Its surface is shaped by the topologies of the body, wrapping, folding, and opening around the wrist. The relationship between skin and bronze shifts between the remembered body from which the form originated and the body that adorns it. This work occupies a space between jewellery and sculpture. Exploring how materials carry histories, how forms change through use, and how something ephemeral can be made to persist.