Places undergoing transition where the built environment, changing economic value, and uncontrolled nature intersect are often rich in decay and growth. Predominantly fallow, ignored or discarded sites, they are contested locations. Edges, walls and fences in such places (with their associated openings and closed-off paths) are expressions of the marginal and are true ‘edgelands’. These places embody histories, and stories are implied when one takes an archaeologist’s eye to their details and traces. The ideas, marks, qualities, and relationships discovered in these locations are the subject matter for my work and are translated into the material form of the small wearable object. The visual outcomes of this research are expressed as collections of wearable objects that draw on a series of places in transition. This project also considers the function and role of wearable objects. The small crafted forms I have made are miniature works of art and also inherit the history of jewellery. As such, they are viewed in the studio or gallery and when worn, draw focus to a person. As static objects they embody ideas and feelings of a place, implying stories, but, on the body, are conceptually re-formed in a new set of relationships in time and space.