Kerry Leasure is an artist in Bluff Park who creates jewelry from vintage materials, antiques and found objects, using a combination of collage, assembly and manipulated resin techniques to create jewelry that tells a story.
Q: What are some of your influences?
A: My influences — my work is actually a combination of just a love of antiques and being a former English major. So, you know how your professor would ruin every word in a poem, telling you like it wasn't a cat, it was mist or whatever the symbolism was? Basically, my brain now does that with tiny things, and I put them together to tell a tale.
Q: When did you first discover you had a talent for this?
A: When I started, I actually wasn't very good at it. It was just like silly trinket bracelets and junk on chains, and there was no depth of meaning. But I started deconstructing things further and kind of analyzing what I was doing, and eventually, it became what it is now.
Q: Where can people see your work?
A: Primarily at art shows, but I'm cutting way back this fall and not doing many. There's a curated selection of my work at Alabama Goods. There is a larger selection at the Kentuck Art Gallery. And, actually, you can come to my house and create right here in Bluff Park. Just email me: hereachickthereachick@gmail.com.
Q: What’s something interesting about you that people may not know?
A: Cauliflower — I hate it. Why are people trying to make it a thing? It is not rice; it is not pizza crust. It doesn't taste good with buffalo sauce on it. White vegetables should not be a thing. There's just no reason on God's green earth to eat cauliflower.
