Sunday, August 22, 2021

Time to have a heart

 

In these times it is important that we are able to have a heart and reach out to folks - individuals and refuges - including those from Afghanistan; but also hold on to love for ourselves.

I have been making a few melted metal hearts from my silver-plated offcuts. Usually I make hearts that are more for holding in one's hand or as a small sculptural reminder beside the computer or in some special place in one's home. But I have decided to make some pendants - thinner than the sculptural ones. As you can see from the opening photo and that below, I have ended up with 5 including two that feature the base side of the pour. Fiona gave one a test run to see how it would hang.


The metal is poured into graphite moulds such as that below.

I have finished grinding and polishing 6 more sculptural hearts as you can see from the photos below.


It takes quite a while to grind the rough poured hearts and then polish them. A heart with a hole through it to let the love and light in is shown below.


As part of the metal melts I also pour other bits and trim bits from hearts. The pieces below are rough but will become gorgeous earrings,  pendants etc.



3 comments:

  1. (((Barry))) these are more than lovely bring so full of deep heart on so many levels. Have you included gems in any of your smelted work like your'love is the answer' talisman for the dream? So many people covet it as soon as they see it & especially when they hold it.

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  2. Always like hearts, these are very nice. That sounds a bit trite! I like making fabric ones.

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  3. Hi Barry oops! please excuse the typos-
    first line should say ... lovely being so full of deep heart ... and the missing gap in ... your 'love is the answer' talisman

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