About ideas

This one did not last long. I tried to make a ring that looked as uneven and bent as possible. However I noticed when I was soldering it that it was too uneven to look good. It was more like a mishap than something roughly done. And that wasn't quite the idea I had in mind. So I had to even it out almost before I had a chance to finish my idea. I do want to publish some pictures of a failure as well.

Because there will be alot of failures, but this idea took place before I started snapping pictures of my work.Or rather during the time I realised that I should start snapping pictures of work in progress. And because of that there is no picture of the mishap ring. There is however a picture of the ring after I worked it out.

This is the wrong picture. It shows another piece, or rather several pieces that I'm currently working with. It is quite a tedious assignment, but really nice effects of it. A lot of small parts coming together. Well, enough of that, see the thing out of focus?

It's a snake, and it's resting inside the mishap ring that evened out. How it got there is still unknown to me. There are ALOT of stuff on my desk, and I can't really keep track of anything, everyday is a surprise. This little thing was a little thread of silver that didn't really come to life, rather took shape and place within the ring.

After hammering, filing and putting oxide on it. And then filing it again it turned out like this. So rather than the ring itself being uneven and rough, I worked with the surface. The red stone inside it is a crystal of rhodocrosite. It's my latest investment, it's rather fragile and I haven't the slightest idea of what to make of it. You will probably see more of it as I get ideas.

Geometry

I was trying to create a slight disturbance in a piece I did quite recently. The idea was to make something that caught the eye, not because of colours, but of the shape alone (or rather a disturbance in geometric shapes). I realise now while writing that this was quite a strange idea given the material. Perhaps not because of the material itself, rather this line of work.

Where glossy surfaces and seamless designs seem to be the most commonly sought. That of course being my idea of a boring approach, and some way of me justifying my work right now.

I started with two nice squares. While I had the pieces in my hand I tried to shift them over each other to see wich position I liked the most.
After a while I decided that the two squares were just a bit too square.

You can see in the picture that I decided that the two shapes should interfere with each other rather than just being there along with each other. I decided that one square should win and eat a piece of the other square. I did not put it that way there and then, but at the time of writing I just can't stop myself.
That not being horrible enough I made them live next to each other.

I do not know wich one suffers the most, the one that was eaten or the one who did the eating. Also, I did not assemble them exactly nice, at the time I was quite fed up with the geometric shapes and wanted to work with different surfaces and soldering. So I kept going, abandonding the idea of exact geometry and working more on the disturbances of shapes.

I made it glossy and in my opinion nice looking anyway. So the original idea was somehow lost in the making. It became something else. I often like those ideas that take their own shape and evolve to something else. But sometimes I wonder if it's a mistake to work some ideas through. I thought of this and decided that it would be another idea to highlight some parts that perhaps could be seen as mistakes.

Yes, the highlights are close to black.

Links

This chain has been completed for a while.
You don't put the links together as you do them as I first tought somehow. I forged them first, soldered them together and then sawed them open to assemble them again. It was a thorough crash-course in soldering, and that was quite fun. When I do the next one I do want some other piece of work to alter with tho.

I didn't snap any pictures of it while it was in progress. So just the finished clanking chain. I put oxide on the inside and hammered the outer surface to give it a little life.

It was 32 links altogether and the clasp as a seperate one. I think it's roughly 70 cm in length.
The next chain will have much smaller links if it's up to me to decide.