No Labels NZ - Thomas - 6 October
Oct 6, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Exploring the diversity of disability issues.
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- Judith JonesGuestNo Labels HostHost
Oct 6, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Exploring the diversity of disability issues.
I'm going to describe these brooches as displayed together, installed in Toi Art in 2025.
The materials they are made from are bone, ebony, kowhai wood, sterling silver, nine carat gold, dye, marcasite, a black shiny mineral, and sapphire.
This is a group of small creatures, each with a sterling silver brooch clasp attached down their back.
The tallest are eight centimeters high, and they're mostly around 2.5 centimeters across.
We asked our colleagues who installed the work how heavy the brooches felt to hold.
One said, "They're definitely light, porous bone," and suggested roughly the weight of a nectarine.
The second responded, "I would say the weight of a bone-handled steak knife." Each brooch has a simple form that generally suggests a bear or monkey-like animal.
A head with rounded ears, small round eyes of shiny marcasite or sapphire under a flat protruding brow.
They each have a prominent nose and jaw, and a small closed mouth created by a thin carved line.
Most have bodies and limbs covered in long shaggy hair, textured by carving into the form.
The lines of their heads and necks flow into their shoulders, blurred by their shaggy pelts.
They have long arms, mostly hanging down alongside their bodies to or past their hips.
Each has their own name and their own individual stance, expression, and attitude.
Median Umbel, #3, spelt U-N-B-E-L, is alone at the front of the group, down on their right knee, comfortably resting their left arm on their thigh.
They're made from white bone, and there's a roundness to their ears that suggests monkey.
Right.
So how many in the set ...
That, that ...
I, I was sitting here just im- um, imagining what they were like and thinking, "Wow, it would be great to touch these," but-
I'm going to describe these brooches as displayed together, installed in Toi Art in 2025.
The materials they are made from are bone, ebony, kowhai wood, sterling silver, nine carat gold, dye, marcasite, a black shiny mineral, and sapphire.
This is a group of small creatures, each with a sterling silver brooch clasp attached down their back.
The tallest are eight centimeters high, and they're mostly around 2.5 centimeters across.
We asked our colleagues who installed the work how heavy the brooches felt to hold.
One said, "They're definitely light, porous bone," and suggested roughly the weight of a nectarine.
The second responded, "I would say the weight of a bone-handled steak knife." Each brooch has a simple form that generally suggests a bear or monkey-like animal.
A head with rounded ears, small round eyes of shiny marcasite or sapphire under a flat protruding brow.
They each have a prominent nose and jaw, and a small closed mouth created by a thin carved line.
Most have bodies and limbs covered in long shaggy hair, textured by carving into the form.
The lines of their heads and necks flow into their shoulders, blurred by their shaggy pelts.
They have long arms, mostly hanging down alongside their bodies to or past their hips.
Each has their own name and their own individual stance, expression, and attitude.
Median Umbel, #3, spelt U-N-B-E-L, is alone at the front of the group, down on their right knee, comfortably resting their left arm on their thigh.
They're made from white bone, and there's a roundness to their ears that suggests monkey.
Right.
So how many in the set ...
That, that ...
I, I was sitting here just im- um, imagining what they were like and thinking, "Wow, it would be great to touch these," but-
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