This collection of jewellery from Jennifer Laracy explores symbolism related to a passage from The Caged Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Laracy develops a visual language that combines dark cages, (bird and rib), and living organs with the more lyrical imagery of birds and coral-like arterial branches.
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Jennifer Laracy, Body of Work (detail), 2005-06.