This is a ring made from a vintage button that has the Aesop fable The Fox and the Crow. I have this ring because, actually I made it out of a vintage button, because a few years ago I was doing a research project in Venice Beach in California and I needed something to sell in order to work there. […]

I realized there was this whole genre of buttons that had Aesop’s Fables on them which then reconnected me to all these fables I had read as a child and forgotten about. […] The crow has a piece of cheese (or at least in France the crow has a piece of cheese, I’m not sure what they have here) and the fox wants the piece of cheese. The crow is up in the tree and it’s trying to get the cheese by complimenting the crow and asking it to sing with its beautiful voice and giving the crow like all these incredible compliments. So finally the crow sings and the cheese falls out and the fox eats the cheese. […]

Exhibited by Julka

Transcript edited by Sarah Crawford