Necklaces

Since 1999, my husband Richard Lang and I have collected ocean-born plastic debris exclusively from 1,000 yards of Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore. 

Each necklace can be worn as jewelry, making an important and timely statement about plastic pollution. 

Each necklace can be displayed as a precious artifact, a relic of contemporary consumer culture.


Ivory Line
tiparillo tips, straws, shards and fragments

Seafoam
fragments of styrofoam packing trays, floats, coffee cups

Dothan
tiparillo tips, fishing float foam

Pacify
tiparillo tips, styrofoam chunks, 
baby binky backing and handle, shard of black 

Flip-flop Fandango
flip-flop sandle, float beads, fiberglas chunks

Double Loop of White
styrofoam packing trays, foam floats, 
straws, fiberglass chunks 

One Thing or Another
random assortment of small white pieces

Limelight
glo sticks, fasteners, gaskets

Sabots
shotgun shell sabots

Fore 
golf ball husk, fishing floats, spice, shakers, globes, caps,
and many unidentifiable objects

Desert Foam
fragments of styrofoam packing trays, floats, coffee cups

Widening Gyre
over one hundred small pieces of plastic
ensnared in a wrap of brass wire

what goes up
20 SuperBalls
Super Balls are one of the rarest finds on the beach.
This necklace was years in the making.
Completed 2011.






Golden Globes
22 SuperBalls and plastic globes
Super Balls are one of the rarest finds on the beach.
This necklace was years in the making.
Completed 2011.


Orange you glad
2010
SuperBall, deconstructed fishing float 

Super I           Going Out of Business
                                               sold                              sold

The Party's Over             Warm and Cool
                                                            sold                                  sold