Month: January 2020

I went to the light show yesterday there was a display called the bra tree. A hundred of bras were hung on the tree brunch to raise awareness of the breast cancer. It makes me think about that objects can symbolize a political event or contemporary issue. Like the rubber boats make me think of the Syrian refugees crossing over the sea or the mask is a representation of the pneumonia in China. These objects may symbolize the issue as well as represent the fear caused by certain disease. I am going to look at how can object affects people’s emotion and represent certain event.

18^th  Jan

After the bronze pour an axe was used to open the mode. It hits the mode along the side and then hit slightly to the other end. When the mode broken into half in order to get the casted object I knocked the bronze tree from its bottom. It was a tough job because all the plaster power blocked the mode from coming out. I move most of the plaster by hand and use the other side of the hammer take the bronze tree out of the robust mode. A wire brush was used to clean plaster that remain on the mode, due to my jewellery are delicate objects I must spend quite a while on brushing.

Jewellery were cut form the bronze tree by using a cutting disc. I placed the blade quite close to the object because it may save me time on polishing. Unfortunately, the sharp blade chopped off the tiny parts from the jewelry.  Next time I will use a dermo to remove the long bronze sticks.

I decide to look at Dutch Designer Gijs Bakker who was trained as a jeweler and industrial designer. His practice sharing the same feature as mine, such as he is using a combination of geometric form with human figures in the ‘Self Portrait’ brooch. From my point of view geometric shape always appear in mass produced designs whereas the figurative head is a representation of conceptual crafty objects. This combination bridges the perfect industrial objects with conceptual meaning.

        I choose to do the pewter’s live as my external project. Their given theme is ‘roaring twenties’ my research shows that there are so many evolutionary changes happened in the 20^th century like the Suffrage Homosexuality and the Expressionism and the Surrealism. I am quite interested in the idea of the Homosexuality and the LGBT movement. I decide to look at the ‘Drag Queen’ which tracing back to the late 16^th and early 17^th when Shakespearean theatre came with the rule that only men could tread the board so when some men has to dress like female playing the opposite sex they would drag along the floor. Nowadays drag queen become a way of expressing men’s personality and who they really are. I automatically relate drag queen’s stunning custom with the fighting fishes’ beautiful long tail. I came up with head decoration that combines the same feature of drag queen’s custom and fight fishes’ long tail.

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