21st Feb
To expand material explorations on cardboard I decide to work directly with metal. Transferring street object’s texture on thin brass sheet. Representing sense of brokenness on thin metal sheet and then turn the textured metal into jewellery. Thin brass sheet was bended with pliers.
To hold cardboard’s three layers together I decide to work on a long brass sheet instead of three short ones. This test piece is quite time consuming especially the middle part that need to be formed into a wavy shape. Although I tried my best to bend each curve evenly, they look clumsy. Brass’s shinney surface makes cardboard’s texture less important. Furthermore, the object seems too crafty, which does not communicate street’s object’s lost feeling. I might oxidize brass creating a darker colour in the second layer.
I was inspired by Deborah Czeresko’s glass sculpture that stretches chewing gum into an interesting shape. I started to pay more attention on gum’s stretchy and fragile quality. Creating material contest by casting chewed gum into pewter or bronze. Caught attention on its interesting form and the extreme material’s contrast.