This piece was inspired by a doorstop my family used to use when I was in elementary school. This “doorstop” was an award given to one of my parents, and featured a recording head encased in a faceted chunk of glass, for their work on the component.

 

Wanting to highlight this component that silently stars everyday life, the existence of which featured so casually in my childhood through my parents, I branched a simple representation of it on an actuator arm. It hangs over a topography interpreted from the boards within hard drives.

 

The round nature of the brass tubing used in the piece contrasts with the traditional rectangular geometries of actual circuit boards, resulted in an abstracted, sculptural brooch.