Hand-altered keychain assembled from salvaged materials and a childhood wooden block.
Category: Remade
File Under: Personal Object, Upcycled Accessory
A one-of-one keychain composed of salvaged components, anchored by a green wooden alphabet block sourced from the artist’s childhood home. The “X” block, drilled and fitted with metal hardware, is linked to a chain and a dense cluster of safety pins—collected over years and configured into a compact, interlocked form.
A hand-stamped aluminum tag carries the phrase “Chains, against standardized life and death”—a quiet refusal of mass-produced identifiers in favour of singular, personal detail. The combination of block, chain, and hardware draws a line from early fascinations with structure, logic, and making, through to a mature practice that embraces complexity, chance, and reassembly.
Intended for daily carry. Wear and surface patina will develop through use.
Hand-altered keychain assembled from salvaged materials and a childhood wooden block.
Category: Remade
File Under: Personal Object, Upcycled Accessory
A one-of-one keychain composed of salvaged components, anchored by a green wooden alphabet block sourced from the artist’s childhood home. The “X” block, drilled and fitted with metal hardware, is linked to a chain and a dense cluster of safety pins—collected over years and configured into a compact, interlocked form.
A hand-stamped aluminum tag carries the phrase “Chains, against standardized life and death”—a quiet refusal of mass-produced identifiers in favour of singular, personal detail. The combination of block, chain, and hardware draws a line from early fascinations with structure, logic, and making, through to a mature practice that embraces complexity, chance, and reassembly.
Intended for daily carry. Wear and surface patina will develop through use.
Materials: Wooden block, metal chain, aluminum tag, mixed hardware
Dimensions: Approx. 5.5" total length
Origin: Found materials, hand-altered by Chains
Care: Designed for regular use; surface wear will accumulate naturally
Collection: 01, 1 of 6
