Half Way Through

I have learnt that putting together the found objects helps me to progress further as they become a vehicle for further things.
I havfe taken and used stronger elements with me from this and emphasized them such as vintage patterns, heritage colours and an unfinished and imperfect aesthetic to the pieces. More importantly I have brought through the reinterpretation of the found objects through reflection and analysis and abstractly reinterpreted them.
These pieces have come togethere through intuitive material experimentation and composition. Main aspects are resin and wax casting, electroforming, small scale metalwork, enamelling and the use of transfers. Main materials are bolsa and hard wood, gold foil, resin, felt and copper.
These pieces narratively tell a story of crumbling and decayed interiorswhichy were once a boast, a marvel and a show faded through burnt and decayed tradgedy; gold leafed walls, grand spiraling staircases, grand pianos, expensive paintings from Great Masters framed with grand baroque burnt to ruins, a mere skeleton of what they were.

These small wearable sculptures (brooches) pick up the pieces after the tragedy and are once again objects of beauty to boast marvel and show.
Contrasts also play an important role in my pieces, such as finished and unfinished, feminine and masculine, dirty and clean, contemporary and classic, gloss and matt, imperfection and perfection, delicate and heavy, sense of loss and collaboration, sense of light and darkness echoed through the era of Romanticism.