Sometimes it is just nice to revisit those images that one can't bring oneself to delete from the phone. This blog is made up of a few of such images. Some because of the droplets; and some because of the sharpness of form and colour such as the opening photos.
I had a stash of melted and cut metal on my work bench as you can see from the photo above. This needed to be turned in earrings and brooches to take to Scotland to see at a couple of markets Fiona and I are scheduled to participate in. Though I did not use all the bits IO did manage to complete quite a number of brooches and earrings.
When I say brooches I really mean coat embellishments as you can see in the photo below - Fiona thinks they make a grand decoration on the lower part of her coat or jumper. The design was Fiona's idea so only right that she should get a couple of the prototypes!!!
I managed to finish transforming a broken ring of a friend into a ring of a different sort - one that looks a bit like cement with silver threaded through it.
I was given a couple of very old christening cups (see below) from a person's grand and great grand parents "to do what I wanted with them". I cut them up, melted the amalgamated metal and returned the cups to the owner as memory ingots - bits of art to remember her forebears by. The ingots are about 2.5cm wide, 5cm long and about .7cm thick - nice weight and texture.
Good achievements for the weekend.
I have completed another of my pieces for the Vessel exhibition. It tells the story of people forced to become fishermen in tiny open boats in the huge rolling waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
The huge overwhelming rolling wave is depicted by a patinated copper coil salvaged from a hot water system. The small open boat is made from fold formed recycled copper and brass sheet. The metal of the boat is fire blackened. The boat rides a piece of drift wood - like riding a wave within a wave. The copper coil is about 300mm in diameter and 350mm long.
A mixture of process and completed images follow.
I love the simple strength and story telling nature of this piece
Another dark morning with dew overnight (see the blossom above) - thankfully that there was no wind and it was not cold when I walked. Early light below.
I was uplifted by the number of birds out looking for food, singing and a bit of preening in the early light. Some of the birds below.
I startled a wallaby as I wandered the streets.
Enjoyed a few blossoms.
Checked out G's orchid house - the time of the year for gorgeous white orchids.
So many fragments of beauty to recharge the spirit.
As I worked on my three pieces for the Vessel Exhibition I also worked on a few pieces that might go into the gallery shop.
Over the weekend I completed making some sail form bowls/incense burners and some sail form earrings. You can see 5 pair of highly polished solid brass plate earrings in the opening photo.
I made 7 incense bowls-burners; including making the incense holders our of melted metal - beautiful silver-brass metal with gorgeous tops as you can see in the photos below.
An another look at the earrings- reflecting a painting on the wall - as you can see one pair is made from patinated copper.
Another productive weekend.
