Day76 : Work 76. Repurposed no1.

During this uncertain time of life under COVID-19 outbreak I have found out the only way I can calm down and focus again on life is back to the studio and resume my project of making. The process of creating this piece was surprisingly peaceful and I appreciated it.

Provided I mention again about the project it is about my commitment. For My LALALAND (the project title) I will make one form every working day for 100 days and document it on my blog at my website here. This project was supposed to be a solo exhibition at egetal (Melbourne) in July, 2020 but it has been postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. 

I have produced and collected these mini structures (image below) over the past many years and one of the plans for this project is to complete these structures into something nice and wearable. They are now being repurposed from interesting structures into wearable sculptures.

powder coated, enemelled and blackened mini structures

I have used the middle blue one.

The blue one in the middle was made intuitively in the first place so that I needed plan to turn it into jewellery. (below image)

sketch plan on 27/09/2019 I was trying to make a brooch using form and space of this intuitive structure.

In the process of making I have found it is a little too obvious to make other quarter sphere connecting old and new structures together so that I have changed my plan. More material and patterns of perforation were introduced and I am very contented with this outcome. The hardest part in techniques was fusing silver sheet with perforated silver sheet on top. I had to go through all the soldering processes many times over and over.

two parts. similar structures but blue one was intuitive and other one was planned accordingly.

process of fusing silver and marriage with mildsteel.

And these below images are the outcomes. Quite unpredictable, unusual but geometrically advanced as it uses structures, colours and negative space very well. Harmonic but interfering at the same time, which I like and expect to my structures.

Repurposed no1. pendant. silver and mildsteel blackened and powder coated.