Spiralling is a brooch exploring the theme of trauma and distress, intending to physically represent a sentiment and the experience of anxiety through metal.

The brooch, of a round shape, holds a rotating mechanism on the inside, filled with steel pins. The pins act as a metaphor for spiralling, also known as catastrophic thinking or magnifying, a series of negative thoughts, like an infinite circle, overwhelming the individual and amplifying the anxiety.

Spiralling is an attempt to use jewellery making as a tool to process, understand and react to my trauma.