Crush

The metal form of this painted brass brooch is closed, and the shelter it provides is also a prison for the silk folds within. The pleated silk is packed in too tightly for comfort, bursting forward and out the only way it can, but still clamped tightly within the metal shell. Wearing the piece will eventually wear the silk down and destroy its lustre, but not wearing it leaves the silk uncomfortably crushed into the unyielding metal.