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Four utensils- gathered sea plastic, fishing line, found steel, silver and linen thread. Part of Retracing Nature at Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset alongside ceramics by Adam Buick until March 30th. @hauserwirth @make_hwsomerset @atdbuick #utensils #flatware #strangetools #found #gathered #collected #reuse #remnants #traces #objectswithmeaning #poetics #visuallanguage #landscape #fromthesea #seatreasure #objectsthatspeak #otherness #betweenthisandtheother #seaplastic #assemblage #metalwork #contemporarycraft #contemporarymetal #contemporarysilver #metalsmith #silversmith #stuartcairns #hauserwirth #hauserandwirthsomerset https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt0veanFuoW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qdek5sk2gzox

Toothbrush spoon - found sea plastic, oxidised silver, steel and linen thread. Now SOLD. Part of a collection of utensils, strange tools and vessels at Retracing Nature @make_hwsomerset until March 30th alongside work by @atdbuick. #flatware #utensil #spoon #strangetools #assemblage #seaplastic #modernarcheology #gathered #found #fabricated #made #contemporarysculpture #contemporarycraft #sculpturalobjects #objectswithmeaning #visuallanguage #contemporaryart #contemporaryirishart #materiality #visualpoetry #poetics #environmentalart #toothbrush #oxidisedsilver #moderninteriors #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith https://www.instagram.com/p/BugaFPol65G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s0nihgxb8mzn

I have just finished reading Just Kids so posting this collection that lives on my bedside seems appropriate, or maybe even necessary. It’s taken me a while to read this book as it’s an emotional read that deserves time spent on it, and time away from it too. It goes without saying that Patti is an inspiration, but as a 19 year old artist working with photography and starting at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design with @edithofpolperro Robert Mapplethorpe was hugely significant to me 🖤 wonderful book @thisispattismith thank you 🖤 #collections #foundobjects #objectswithmeaning

My dad, my late father Richard, died four years ago. He was a bit of a legend. My father could walk into a gas station or the Oscars and become best friends with everyone. When he was really sick, I went to his place and started picking up some pictures, and I happened upon this hysterical photo of him at the Royal Easter Show, which is a big agricultural show in Sydney. He’s sitting there [calmly]... with two acrobats. And these guys have lightning bolts on their little silver suits and dad’s standing there with his "Brown’s Cows" t-shirt that he designed himself, to much acclaim. This photograph symbolizes everything that he did, also the sort of person he was. He was a dairy farmer that befriended everyone. 

My 97 year old grandmother recently gave me this watch, given to her by my grandfather. She said it was the first watch she owned that hadn't belonged to someone else first. I take so much for granted... 

Tuesday contribution to #OWM (objects with meaning) Zady campaign:  This journal has been with me for over 10 years. It was a high school graduation gift that I almost immediately wanted to discard or re-gift. After all, most 18 year olds find cash as an acceptable gesture of accomplishment--not a cheap journal that may or may not have been a last-minute find.  My, oh my, how that would have been a tremendous mistake.  In my darkest of nights and most trying of life crisis, I've spent the past four years telling this little journal of mine my souls desires, best kept memories and sorted reflections that have held bits and pieces of my identity.  Who knew there would be such solace in a battered old notebook of thought?  My journal has survived breakups, days abandoned while traveling from city to city only to be left in hotels and flown back to be reunited.  Thank you person, whoever you are, that gifted me this incredible treasure. It may not be one of the more glamorous things that I own, but it is arguably the most important and most cherished.

This isn't just any ol' cluster of coffee beans. For us, these coffee beans are full of nostalgia. When we launched our company back in November, we hosted a party at our local coffee shop (@brooklynroasting) and these beans were our party favors. Today, we're divvying up the very last bag of beans for our staff to take home.