Molly Rose Post

Artist Statement

Employing traditional metalsmithing techniques such as lost wax casting, soldering using an acetylene torch, and stone setting, I have created this collection of jewelry, which is inspired by outer space, fantasy, and science fiction. This group of pieces is typified by a lack of simplification and an elaboration of ornamentation, texture, color, nostalgic influence, detail, sentiment, reminiscence, multiplicity as between rough/smooth, dark/light, big/small, inside/outside, etc. Anti-minimalist leanings are expressed in the appreciation of old things, a concern for vintage and valence, galaxies of color, variations in shape and size, attention to detail, and a concern to relate mastery of technique and artistic production to my personal development and the shaping of myself as the face of my line, the ongoing culmination of immersing self in art.