Do we really know where our stuff comes from? The tag in your shoes that say what country they were made in does say anything about where the materials were obtained. In our world of objects, we are surrounded by things with complex pasts that we don’t even consider and even if we did, we may never be able to know. Leslie Chapman is a jewelry fabricator and designer who does know where her materials come from. That’s because she and her husband mine the gold themselves.
