Convoluted Dissonance in Metals #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Lives in a Bag, 7 is in my Front Right Pocket and 8 and 9 are in the Corner

This is a sculpture done in Chainmaille- one of the first J ever did in maille.

Each chain is between 9' to 11' in length and made from 316LSI surgical grade stainless steel, except for number 8, which has silica-grade bronze interweaved. Every single ring is hand made. J took wire and "... coiled it into springs, cut the springs into rings and took the rings and made them into things."

To coil the wire, J hand turned wire about a steel dowel. He wove the rings together one at a time, putting in an average of over 40 hours of weaving time alone on every chain.

The series became not just a sculpture, but a performance piece. J made a mobile mailling station which he took around town. He would sit down in public places and work on these sculptures. This invariably drew a crowd. It became a public act of meditation and philosophy. When weaving, a trance-like state was achieved and a moral gleamed from the chainmaille.

"In these sculptures, I knew every single ring. I hand created them and joined them together in this sculpture. Each ring becomes part of a system- a system in which the individual ring is lost to create a whole. This whole is only a variance of that single ring. Ring number 44 and ring number 166 do not touch, but they are interlinked despite not knowing or even seeing one another. The individual ring is ultimately not noticed, but it is still there and contributing to the system of the chain. This is not unlike ourselves in our modern society."

-J Kent