Auction #22: Silver Harmonies

When I first heard about this project, I knew I wanted to participate, but I’ll also admit to a certain amount of trepidation: how *do* you make a piece of jewelry, something so tangible and unchanging, to match a story, something that by its nature is about narrative and time, and inherently intangible despite being fixed in a specific order of words?

But by the morning after I read “The Score” I knew what at least my own answer would be — knew it in that mysteries-of-the-subconscious way, where the answer presents itself fully formed without your ever being aware you were thinking about the question. These earrings are a surprisingly (to me, at least) literal representation of the story — so literal, indeed, that I fear to discuss the correspondences lest I find myself in spoiler territory. I’d love to know how well this attempt at a translation works for those who’ve read the story; for now, I’ll just have to wait to have that conversation.

You should go read “The Score” yourself, of course. Immediately, if not sooner. And not just so that I can talk about it.

M. Panitch