✹ Metal workshop

The end of the term is coming up next week, there are many more workshops that I want to explore. This final week of the term - I’ve went to metal workshop as my subject is relevant to a reflective material in which metal seems to be the most obvious choice to be used.

This is my first time working with metal. On the campus, most of the equipments is suitable for sculptural artwork with a bigger scale. The expected outcome of mine would be a wearable art piece, which should be big enough to be made in this workshop.

First thing I was testing is wire soldering. It's easier than I thought - gloves might make it a bit awkward at first but through time I get used to it and can make my work easily after. Here, as the above pictures, I created two spherical axises shape with vertical lines that weave together.

I came up with this idea from the last summer when I sketched the development of my previous project, ⇲the plastic garland. By exploring the 8 axises shape of each module of plastic flower - I try to connect each one without using any thread or other material so I weave it together by the exises. The relationship between each module, then, create new different silhouette when it moves - from this idea, I think it gives me a sense of energy transforming - from movement through form changing.

I want to explore the idea of energy transforming more because, from the artist research of ⇲Gisela Colon, she also implies this idea through her work by using light as a material and emphasize the aesthetic of the light by a reflective and translucent material. I'm touched by the idea of energy transforming both from force to form changing and light to reflective surfaces.