PARIS BRIEF.
I have been working on a set of "chains" for the Paris Brief, trying to bring myself to work bigger and bolder, considering it not so much as a jewellery piece but as an experiment with line. More a sculpture of the possibilities of line than something to merely hang around your neck. I think this prospect of reviewing the work as more of a playful experiment with line has freed me up to be less considerate and more adventurous with what I am doing. By getting to bogged down with the formalities of jewellery making such as fastenings, wear-ability and comfort, I may have been missing out on exciting new horizons.
I find it difficult up scaling my work and feel that I am slowing beginning to do this, but I see it as something I really need to work on as once I have up scaled I can see what works and doesn't to then descale and home in if necessary.
They photograph like drawings. The above two images I feel to be of the current most interest, they are incomplete and need a larger build but are starting to take shape. Bulbous worlds contained.
I feel like they are like building castles, laying the foundations and then building upwards, adorning in its wrath.
A not so successful sample was the aftermath of the image below. The pattern became too rigid, the form too obvious that it lost any magic of the line. The idea of the coiling of the rope is something I would like to experiment more with later in the project but for this brief, in this controlled obvious state I don't think it works.
