Better to join the chorus, than mumble dissent. Better to make applause, than sit on both hands. Yet neat as this may be, there is one work of Tilden's that doesn't seem to conform to the trend. Stiff Link deliberately undermines the virtue of chains as frictionless translators of energy. Tilden incorporates grit into one of the links so that it might take a stable form.
Resistance can actually be productive in holding a shape on the body.
These are some of the mysteries in Tilden's jewellery. She gives metal the capacity to flow. She elaborates the chain as a device for understanding ourselves. And, classically, she ornaments function.