Newfoundland

Verdi Yahooda was invited by Romilly Saumarez Smith to photograph a selection of her found metal objects before they became part of her jewellery. Over a series of visits to Romilly’s house she began placing the metal fragments, sometimes individually, sometimes in groups, on areas of the heavily worn floorboards of the 18th building.

 

In this playful process, the wood grain, pitted with nails and with stains, marks and scratches began to trigger ideas, suggesting imaginary landscapes...

A dark sea recedes. A heap of ancient buckles, each shaped like a shiny figure of eight,
lie on the shore, washed up by the tide...

A lone pearl, tiny, white, round, suggests a flower emerging from the soil...

Tiny insects crawl along, one behind the other, like blobs of amoeba...

Old metal thimbles, squashed and disfigured, emerge from a dark crevice ... like broken
shells filled with sand...

Extracts from the Essay for 'Newfoundland' by Pennina Barnett - 2015

 

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