LASTCHANCE/LOSTCHILD

LASTCHANCE/LOSTCHILD

After a recent trip to explore the Montana mines, visiting small mining town Butte - home to her recently deceased Grandmother - Melosi has embraced raw metal materials of antiqued silver and coppery tones which have been intensified by applying heat to achieve a rainbow effect, in addition to the setting of uncut, locally sourced minerals such as Pyrite and Chalcopyrite. Once again Melosi has been able to capture the beauty which arises out of destruction - the broken, abandoned, and overlooked, a recurrent theme in her work - but this time inspired by family history.