LOOK Gala — Weather Data Statement Necklace

LOOK Gala, Contemporary Calgary · 2023
Wearable sculpture / environmental data / material study

Created for Contemporary Calgary’s LOOK Gala, this statement necklace was an experiment in translating my environmental data practice into wearable sculpture.

The piece began with the same methodology used throughout my studio work: weather data was abstracted into organic forms, removing the information from the familiar language of graphs and charts and allowing it to be encountered instead through shape, colour and material.

For the necklace, those forms were translated into layered paper/resin, chain and beaded components incorporating reflective and iridescent surfaces. Loosely connected elements created movement and the body itself became part of how the work was experienced.

Working at the scale of the body introduced a different set of considerations. Weight, balance, movement and the relationship between individual components became part of the artistic process, while the necklace needed to function simultaneously as an object and something that could actually be worn.

The project became an early investigation into jewellery as an extension of my sculptural practice—a format where environmental data, material experimentation, light and movement could intersect at an intimate scale.

Rather than treating jewellery as separate from my studio work, I see wearable objects as another potential site for experimentation: small sculptures activated through their relationship with the body.