May 19th, 2008
This auction is now closed. Thanks for bidding! Please subscribe to our RSS feed if you want to know when our next auction begins.
Lily, Surrounded by Rats by Helen Pilinovsky
Necklace made with antique faceted gunmetal glass beads, black stick pearls, and jelly glass. The smallest section of necklace is 14″. Click the images for hi-res versions.
Based on “Rats” by Veronica Schanoes
“Rats” is a fairy tale inspired by a nightmare, a retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” which overlays the death and life of Nancy Spungen, late of punk-rock legend. I read “Rats” for the first time in the spring of 2006, I think, knowing nothing about Nancy Spungen or Sid Vicious - all I knew was that it was a beautiful, mind-blowing, heart-breaking revision of a fairy tale that had never really appealed to me. The innate passivity of “Sleeping Beauty” had ticked me off since I was a child (maybe I was too influenced by an early reading of Hamlet: the line that always rang in my subconscious following her curse was “were it not that I have bad dreams”). I could never figure out why she’d been so quick to trust, why she’d sought out the tender prick of the spindle in the first place. But, give our heroin(e) a reason to seek the needle? I’m there. All I know is, “Rats” made me cry, which almost never happens.
Lily, Surrounded by Rats is made up of antique faceted gunmetal glass beads, twinned black stick pearls, and a luminous tear-drop of jelly glass found in a junk shop.
Helen Pilinovsky
Subscribe to our
RSS feed to keep up with auctions as they go live. You can even have notifications
emailed to you.
Filed under Auctions, Interfictions, Jewelry, Necklaces | Comment (0)
