As their “odd” collaboration launches at Dover Street Market London, Jake Chapman and William Welstead talk about jewellery being a fetish, Darwinism, and the violent collision of worlds that underpins their prehistoric pendants
JC: Some would say childlike, but I’m very dismissive of this idea that artists see through children’s eyes. The notion of innocence is a ridiculous projection. Children are monsters before they’re human. I’ve been in trouble for saying things like this before, but the innocence of a child’s vision and their art is a connection only seen through the eyes of optimistic bourgeois parents who think their child’s scribbles somehow compare to a Jackson Pollock’s.
JC: I was thinking about the collaboration as if it was this coming together of something unashamedly beautiful and something unashamedly nihilistic and what the magnetising force would be and I think it could be the stones, these jewels that are created by tectonic pressure, like little red blood clots of violence. Beautiful and extreme. It’s the marriage of pre-human with post-human. WW: And the pre-dinosaur, even. JC: We can use this as the selling point.
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