http://redkastuff.com

www.davidchoiart.com

www.darcymiro.com

http://www.karinseufert.de

My work is about the tension between structure and sensuality. I am interested in framing female identity through the lens of beauty, control, dignity, strength and vulnerability. By building simple structural units into complex sculptural forms, organic shapes give way to fortified architectural systems. Steel wire is used as basic material, a continuous line of wire is shaped into interpenetrating forms. As multiple units complete a perfect structure, the whole becomes animated and my jewelry comes to life.
The human body is the perfect context for my three-dimensional forms. Only when the body ornaments are perfectly installed on the wearer, does an emotional and structural rapport begin. As people imagine building an ideal house of their own, I also imagine building my house of jewelry on the human body.

http://www.fritz-maierhofer.com

Availabe for free download:

oly-stripes.pdf

oly-blank.pdf

http://www.goncalocampos.com/

www.catalinabrenes.com

http://vanessa-aerts.blogspot.com/

Wax Odyssey

I once asked a colleague to cast some small plastic soldiers for me. The soldiers came out brilliantly, but equally fascinating was the elaborate network of sprues he had constructed to make sure the molten silver fed into every little nook and cranny of the mould. Once removed, the waste sprue sat on my desk for over a year. Eventually I decided to experiment with wax wire as a means of generating form in itself, aiming towards a series of ‘fantasy sprues’. The series of models remains unfinished (I made over 50 models, of which only one was eventually cast in silver; see image 43) but they paved the way for a collection of future pieces entitled Fantasy Sprues and Patterns of Unnecessary Complexity.
Meanwhile, a pile of wax off-cuts accumulated on my bench. Just as the first sprue had been a by-product of the production of another object, I realised that my equivalent lay in the scrap wax and not in the structures I was trying to make. The scrap wax was therefore cast as a series of clusters, by picking up small handfuls and fabricating whatever structure they happened to form. The colleague who produced the initial sprue is an extremely skilled and respected jeweller in his own right, and he has no idea about any of this.

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