Anne Irving "If You Heat Sugar Carefully It Melts to Clear Liquid"

3.5"h 5"w 1/32"d

copper, enamel, carbon, 1500º heat. 2023

To burn is to enact a chemical change. There is irreparable loss in the burning of matter. A milkweed moth transforms in color and leaves a carbon stain on a hot enamel plate.

Artist: Anne Irving combines jewelry techniques and unconventional natural materials to study the cyclical systems of birth, transformation and death. She commonly uses imagery and the body of the moth, featuring the insect in states of metamorphosis, maturity and death.