About the Item

Liberty Dime Pill Studs

One of a kind vintage silver liberty or mercury dimes soldered and fabricated to form show stopping dome stud earrings. It is a mismatched heads and tails design featuring winged lady liberty and the Roman fasces which consists of an executioner's axe bound to a bundle or rods or sticks. The fasces symbol represented the power of life or death.

Single earring is 2" x 2"

Each weighs 15 grams

About the Artist

American artist Stacey Lee Webber was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1982. As a contemporary artist, Webber cherishes working with found materials whose history is physically evident. Her work is often described as meticulous, pushing the boundaries of everyday recognizable objects to the point of unidentifiable. Through material, she strives to make artwork that interests a broad range of viewers and challenges their preconceived notions of the objects that surround them.

Webber's sculpture is often painstakingly laborious which she uses as a continuous theme throughout her work. The pieces make the viewer question the value of her labor and the work ethic of blue collar America. Her practice incorporates a wide range of techniques including coin cutting, embroidery, metal fabrication, weaving and resin pouring. All of these techniques and more are used to declare the importance of the handmade while challenging these same systems. Webber's objects are haunting celebrations of liberty and labor.

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