I began to think about this idea back when Handshake 6 started. Back when the Social uprising in my country had just began. This nonsensical news article hit me in my soft spot I guess. I took me all of two years to get it out of my system.
Pearl Molotov, jewellery object, 2022.
Armadas, jewellery object, 2022.
Carabineros de Chile (national police) in the year 2020, when both Covid and riots were out of control, spent 15 million pesos (27,000 NZD) in 18kt gold pearl earrings for female police graduates as part of their mandatory uniform. During one of several violent street confrontations that year, two ill protected female police officers sustained serious burns by molotov cocktails thrown at their pearl adorned young faces.
