Have you ever noticed that if you buy a white Volkswagen suddenly the world seems to be full of white Volkswagen's? Or if someone says they are looking for old-school heated rollers you find a zillion lurking in every op shop you walk in to? This week whilst looking for info for an essay, I got sidelined by YouTube (meh, why fight it?) and stumbled across some really cool demos of a metal working technique called fold-forming. Then I get to uni to find a pal banging away some fold- formed objects. By now I am starting to hear the faint strains of the "Twilight Zone" theme in my head. Yesterday a new book turned up in my letter box and guess what it has ( among other stuff) in it? Yep - a bunch of fold-forming projects! A small orchestra has struck up in my head now! Here is my first attempt at fold-forming - ta-dah ...
This started out as a strip of flat metal and by virtue of repeated bashing and heating and bashing some more, I have bent it to my will ... mwahahaha ...
Frankly, I can't imagine that this will become a wearable piece of jewellery, but it is kind of nest-like so there are other possibilities. It is a longish process ( mental note - buy heavier hammer!) but worth it to see that flat metal become a 3 dimensional object.
And for those of you who don't remember the Twilight Zone ...
my word, you've just cracked me up, thank you! always nice, early in the morn'. how about backward serendipity? i broke a metal spoon in my mom's kitchen, and whilest i've been finding plenty of these when not needed, now, all of a sudden they have vanished of the face of the earth... oi, oi... n♥ good luck with the bashing, and from here, deffo, heavier hammer. oi, you're brave! but it's a work out too, i'm guessing? hoping.
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Serendipity? or maybe it universal consciousness :) Love your piece!
my word, you've just cracked me up, thank you! always nice, early in the morn'.
how about backward serendipity? i broke a metal spoon in my mom's kitchen, and whilest i've been finding plenty of these when not needed, now, all of a sudden they have vanished of the face of the earth... oi, oi...
n♥
good luck with the bashing, and from here, deffo, heavier hammer. oi, you're brave! but it's a work out too, i'm guessing? hoping.
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