These Earrings Are Loud- SSENSE / by Slow Waves

Ambush's Silver SSS Record Earrings Connect the Dots Between Jamaican Sound Systems and Early Human Exploration

     

    "Earrings were first conceived to make humans intelligible to each other. Swinging like lures from the lobe, they were complicit in communicating status and signalling prosperity. They also whispered more subtle truths of what we hoped to be. In adorning our ears with metal moulded over open flame, we turned outwards toward our own aspirations and toward other people. Tokens of intelligibility, of worth, and of noise, these AMBUSH earrings coalesce a globe-spanning tradition."

     

    Read the full article by Kevin Pires HERE