(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes & principles of the United Nations.

This piece explores ideas of community and how in modern society we may have lost or take for granted the responsibility we have to our own freedoms.
       Rights and freedoms do not exist in a vacuum or by mere belief. All freely exercised rights and freedoms are contingent on people recognizing these rights and supporting their implementation. Another way of looking at it is that rights do not exist, only power (or the lack thereof) for implementing freedom.
       Only you can grant yourself freedom, by acknowledging whatever strengths and resources you possess, acting according to your own individual values and aspirations, and facing the consequences with whatever is at your disposal…With freedom implicitly comes responsibility.
      The shackle, to be worn on the wrist symbolizes handcuffs or restraints. I decided to make the piece with a hinge so that it can be shut trapping and constricting the wearer. There is a central lynch pin on a chain used to open or close the shackle, which the wearer can operate. This represents how we are all responsible for our own freedoms and limitations and these in turn effect the people around us and in turn the community we live in.
       The shackle is made up of a patch work of different metals, Silver, Brass and Copper to represent the diverse cultural differences present in communities such as skin colour, religious believes, sex or class. The metals are fused together in the same way in which people from different backgrounds have met, become friends, or formed relationships and gone on to create the multi cultured communities in which we live. I have included symbols that can often cause dispute or divide communities, but which are also seen as a source of power for some, each symbol holds both positive and negative connotations.