32 MILLION YEARS AHS. (After Homo Sapiens), 2017- ...

32 MILLION YEARS AHS. (after Homo Sapiens), 2017

The jewellery are composed representations, arranged with familiar form elements from present times - for instance the bottom of a coca cola can casted in resin, the twisted string from a Champaign top, plastic wrapping and the opening mechanism of canned food.

The materials are amber, gold and different kinds of plastic, all substances that will probably outlast the human race, as we know it today. Amber is around 32 millions years old, and a lot of the plastic products made today will take approximately the same period of time to degrade in nature.

With these pieces I intend to question what kind of `treasures’ we leave behind and which imprints an eventual future civilization will find as traces after us, Homo Sapiens. I vision my works as motives, arranged Still-Life´s in times ahead, transformed into jewellery.

Annette Dam, 30 million years AHS. Necklace, 2017 14ct gold, amber, plastic pearls, plastic, resin 35x14x7cm Photo Dorte Krogh
Annette Dam. 27 Million Years AHS Ring, 2022 14K Gold, amber, tourmaline, plastic, resin 45x.53x2cm Photo Dorte Krogh
Annette Dam. 28 Million Years AHS Ring, 2022 14K Gold, amber, rhodochrosite, plastic, resin 45x3x4cm Photo Dorte Krogh
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