Deborah Zander

Sea Glass is all that remains of my original concept which was of a necklace made from flotsam and jetsam off the beaches of King Island. It involves wrapped telephone and electrical wire beads and glass found on the beaches of King Island.

I have not always been as easy with King Island and island culture as I am now. I was brought here to recover from a protracted illness. As my recovery became more pronounced, all that had been left behind began to haunt me. This tree grew out of the frustration of living a life that appeared not my own. The poem grew out of the need to express this feeling as clearly as possible. While they can be appreciated separately, the poem and the tree come together to show that as my journey progressed I began to see that "there is always hope".

Deborah has had some poetry published and was a member of an amateur theatre group in Brisbane. Always surrounded by craft and art thanks to her sister and her mother, Deborah succumbed to beading and jewellery making 18 months ago. Deborah is intrigued by how wire and beads can illustrate a metaphor just as well as a well-crafted sentence. Deborah continues to investigate how to turn words into woven and beaded objects.