Snapchat Hora

necklace, 2017
materials: driftwood, rope, calico

This necklace shows an embroidery which originally represents a traditional Romanian dance called 'Hora'. The initial embroidery depicts girls dancing hand in hand, but the re-designed one shows girls alternated with the 'ghost' symbol of Snapchat. This is a metaphor for the way in which we 'dance' with 'ghosts' - we share every detail of our day to day life with strangers, people we have never met and might not even be real. The embroidery is degrading towards the end.