The exhibition title is a tongue in cheek nod to the meticulousness required to produce this new body of work. Of the necklace Decker states ,' lately, everything feels like it's falling apart - it's overwhelming. So instead of the usually solid surfaces I work on, I'm breaking it all apart, and showing the act of holding it all together.' Decker's new work takes imagery from military patches, badges, and symbols, breaks them down to their elemental shapes, and stitches them back together showing how even the strongest of forms can still be fragile.

Aaron Decker is an immensely inventive enamellist based in the Metro Detroit Area. Decker creates wearable and sculptural forms that are both personally referential and resoundingly universal. Much of the layered imagery in his work has to do with childhood memories growing up in a military family. Many of the allusions in his work (medals, patches, insignia) reference this military context and reflect Decker’s astute critical stance.