The Milky Way according to Bill Reid
Bill Reid’s Milky Way, 1969
I fell in love with this gorgeous “tour de force” at first site, and feel unable to forego this quoted expression. An intricate jewelry piece that features a detachable middle that can serve as a brooch, it is indeed stunning. Those who might have wondered, as I did, what connections might exist in this piece to traditional Haida art, may be edified by this explanation, taken from the sign at the Bill Reid Art Gallery:
…Reid pointed out that traditional Haida artists very often represented two or more presences at the same time in their art. He gave that Haida concept of plurality a contemporary expression in this necklace with its two main components—-the wire “theme” and the pyramid “theme”—-which are theoretically capable of separation.
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June 16th, 2010 @ 2:33 am
[...] art and exquisite jewelry on display had a lot more wow to them. Charleen said she’d like the Milky Way Necklace for an anniversary [...]
August 29th, 2010 @ 10:08 pm
[...] presences within the same physical space, a concept seen in Bill Reid’s modern jewelry piece The Milky Way. Thus, in the Kwakiutl pole, the central head and two end-heads of the sea-monster Sisiutl form the [...]