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Jeweller Awards New Zealand
Jeweller Awards New Zealand
Submitted by debra on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 22:30.
This was my entry in the Regal castings jewellery awards in conjunction with the national jewelleryshow www.jewelleryshow.co.nz.
The piece was a brooch hand pierced out of Sterling silver,set with orange sapphires and a centre "stone" of one battered and bruised "found on the West Coast' Export gold bottle top.
The lettering reads "IN THIS WE TRUST"...
It is deliberately cut to look like the Mongrel Mob Patch's worn on the back of their jackets-the motto like saying is supposed to make the viewer question "trust in what?"
I'm sure the judges did'nt get the whole irony and sentiments this brooch carries,firstly about our heavily alcohol induced society,with it's binge drinking mentality...
Don't get me wrong I've binge drunk many,many times since my teenage years-and even at 43 have to admit though there are many fond crazy memories of running amok on booze-there are also many cringable"I wish I did'nt remember that one"moments.
I grew up in Rural Suburbia, Mosgiel-the PEARL OF THE PLAIN*(cultured it ain't!)-drinking was not only a right of passage BUT held an almost religious significance.All my family loves booze...
I spied the bottle cap on the ground ,glimmering at my magpie eyes...I'm not a beer drinker so it took me a while to figure out it was only an export gold(munta beer) cap.
Yet what struck me as pure gold was the "irony" in it's fools gold cross-and that whilst being rather battered and bruised(eg:run over by vehicles) it still shone brightly under the West Coast sun...
Like a religious icon ..
Wev'e all seen the adverts,young women getting"pissed"(excuse my slang-but it's not pretty and so a pretty word should not be used)-then having some sleaze try to take avantage of them..The cars hitting poles.."If you drink then drive your a bloody idiot",and so on and so on-the constant media coverage
I was lucky,bloody lucky..So,So many times
Yet I saw,I know,I loved people and families who were not so lucky-hopes were shattered-children never came home...Lives remain today in limbo.
Sometimes I feel it's not getting through ,New Zealanders still think it's o.k. to worship alchohol-it's part of who we are as a culture..
Human cost will alway's exceed monetary cost
"Drink yourself more bliss,forget about the last one get yourself another"
