‘ Tola’ Necklace by Margarita Sampson. Materials: provided plastic beads, reclaimed telephone wire.
L 28 cm x W27cmx H 4 cm
Year: 2025
Exhibited: Remade-Reloved 2025
Artist Statement:
I set out to make a work 100% out of recycled materials. This work is made from recycled copper telephone wire from scrap cables, which have been unwound, and then respooled into these links. Some of the links carry a little cup-shaped bead, like a sprout, which to me signifies growth or exponential, making this work have a suggestion of the organic. I had several other experiments with this project which didn’t turn into anything I felt were resolved enough to exhibit, but this is nature of creative exploration.
A note on the title: On Norfolk Island, the Polynesian/Tahitian word for a kind of drum has become the word for ringing in the Norf’k language, as in ‘no tola’ if someone doesn’t pick up the phone, or ‘tola mii” to say ‘call me’.
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‘ Tola’ Necklace by Margarita Sampson. Materials: provided plastic beads, reclaimed telephone wire.
L 28 cm x W27cmx H 4 cm
Year: 2025
Exhibited: Remade-Reloved 2025
Artist Statement:
I set out to make a work 100% out of recycled materials. This work is made from recycled copper telephone wire from scrap cables, which have been unwound, and then respooled into these links. Some of the links carry a little cup-shaped bead, like a sprout, which to me signifies growth or exponential, making this work have a suggestion of the organic. I had several other experiments with this project which didn’t turn into anything I felt were resolved enough to exhibit, but this is nature of creative exploration.
A note on the title: On Norfolk Island, the Polynesian/Tahitian word for a kind of drum has become the word for ringing in the Norf’k language, as in ‘no tola’ if someone doesn’t pick up the phone, or ‘tola mii” to say ‘call me’.
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